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Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
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#712Re: Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
#713It's always been hard to know the extent of how draconian tracking actually is (IT pros tend to not talk about it much). In the US, there's the expectation that when you use an employer-provided device that any and all activity on it can be fully monitored/recorded and used against the employee for any reason. In practice, however, few people worry about reasonable amounts web-surfing, being on hacker-news or doing l…
I wonder if the AI's that replace us will be periodically web surfing and checking HN as part of their daily work flow?
Given the complaints about data-usage from LLMs, they'll be not only checking it but doing so frequently enough to make you look like an utter slacker as the near zero marginal cost means they can index it just in case it happens to have a useful answer to an obscure question.
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Putting Meta next to Netflix in terms of moral culpability is in my opinion laughable. I don't disagree that there are reasons people compromise on things like the morality of their employer - tale as old as society itself. I do disagree that many people like Meta's services - the only things I have seen people like about Meta is Facebook Marketplace (which is really just Craig's List or eBay if you are looking at te…
Yeah like, what evil does Netflix do other than autoplaying the next episode? Like ... it is not just not the same league but different fields.
They commit the most egregious of sins, competing with established media industries so the knives come out in their portrayal.
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Ha, I agree most of his books evoke having been written during stimulant binges; rich and detailed world building in the beginnings transition to incoherent plot driven action at the endings
I enjoyed snow crash probably up until 2/3rds through, same with cryptonomicon. I truly wish he would stick a god damn landing. I don't know what happens after the halfway marks. It's like a different writer takes over and it jumps the shark. I stopped reading his books after a while when they all seem to go off the rails. Damn shame really.
I'd argue that Anathem and Seveneves had actual conclusions.
Possibly The Baroque Cycle though it's been a while since I'd re-read it.
His political fiction (Interface and The Cobweb) were also fairly traditional, though he had a co-author on those.
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I see all this complaining from people in big tech nowadays, but I can't help but wonder, why act like the industry is just big tech? There are so many small companies, research groups etc that can pay a livable wage (just not as exuberant as big tech) without the ethical scruples, while still posing challenging technical problems.
People want to make 500k$/year without the inconvenience of having a job.
Or rather they want to make good money without being treated like shit.
Believe it or not you can have your cake and eat it too.
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I have so many questions. What was your initial startup investment? How did you pick the location to set this up in? What did your business plan look like? How many employees did you start with? How long did it take you to make a profit? Were you a coffee connoisseur before you got into the business? How do you select your beans? How did you do your marketing? I would love if you would answer these questions. Alterna…
I didn't know anything about coffee, but I do have an MBA and held leadership positions before this so I wasn't completely clueless. It took between $150k and $200k to start up. We had to demolish and rebuild an existing retail space. We also spent a lot on our equipment. You can definitely do it for less. We picked a location near our house because we were tired of leaving our city to get good coffee. It's in a fair…
One of the highest quality HN comments I've ever read
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Did everyone like this Stephensen in this thread? I read Cryptonomicon and Seveneves, mostly. They slogged for me a bit. But I love what he writes about, so willing to try another one (even if he doesn't have an editor). It sounds like this could be topical 2027 read. I have a long summer ahead of me.
Stephenson's writing is great if you like lengthy asides that add to the world and to your understanding of the characters, but add nothing to the plot. If you want to read six pages of detailed musings on how the character learned ballroom dance and their design for a special milk-dispensing spoon for eating cereal without it getting soggy, establishing the character is the kind of person who designs spoons in their…
I agree except for REAMDE that was very fast paced and barely explained
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I enjoyed snow crash probably up until 2/3rds through, same with cryptonomicon. I truly wish he would stick a god damn landing. I don't know what happens after the halfway marks. It's like a different writer takes over and it jumps the shark. I stopped reading his books after a while when they all seem to go off the rails. Damn shame really.
I'd argue that Anathem and Seveneves had actual conclusions. Possibly The Baroque Cycle though it's been a while since I'd re-read it. His political fiction ( Interface and The Cobweb ) were also fairly traditional, though he had a co-author on those.
I love all his books, no hate.
Anathem had perhaps the biggest deux ex machina in literary history, and seveneves had an entirely separate novella for an ending.
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not to defend zuck but its a common misconception that meta sells data advertisers dont see the personal data they buy for ad placement
its not a misconception. As an advertiser, I can go use meta's tools, target people specifically, and show them ads on meta's platform. While i don't get the CSV dump, but if i can target people with my message, its the same thing. Meta keeps the data AND the distribution. Data brokers have the data but no distribution of attention for that data. Newspapers have distribution but don't have the granualar data for dire…
i dont think targeted ads are necessarily bad, and definitely not has bad as the data freely shared vs. behind meta's walls
and what is this 3rd use case?