The irony of this is that it only affects the Arabic speaking population, which for the most part already supports the Palestinian side.
Readit NewsTheir methodology seems really flawed. They cherry picked a thousand instances of wrongly removed content, but how many posts do you think there are about the conflict on Facebook and Instagram? Tens of millions? They have no way of knowing how representative that sample is.
Kind of a click-bait headline.
To quote the actual report: "This distribution of cases does not necessarily reflect the overall distribution of censorship."
They asked people to self-report instances. There is probably selection bias (maybe they advertised only to the pro-palestian crowd. Maybe the israeli crowd thinks HRW is biased and didn't want to engage. Maybe something else). There is probably also base rate falacy involved which isn't accounted for.
This just isnt the right type of study to determine if meta has a bias in censorship.
HRW has a reputation for being biased against Israel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Wa... . Regardless of whether that's true, it could explain why pro-Israel folks wouldn't want to engage with them.
kar5pt commented on Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order bbc.co.uk/news/technology... · Posted by u/ode
What bothers me about this isn't that he was committed to a "hospital" (read: jail for mentally ill people).
What bothers me is that the sentence is indefinite. The judge can give him a life sentence for what wouldn't normally justify a life sentence because he's calling it "medicine". The hospital commitment shouldn't be able to last longer than the sentence he would receive if he was neurotypical.
kar5pt commented on It Sure Looks Like Phones Are Making Students Dumber theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jseliger
I've received extremely mixed messages from Americans about how well funded education is.
On one hand, I've heard that a class of 30 kids gets almost half a million dollars of taxpayer money per year.
On the other hand, I've heard that teachers get a salary of about $50k, and have to beg on gofundme to equip their classrooms with basic stationary.
I really have no idea how to get these two facts to line up.
It's pretty simple actually. US schools are run at the local level, not the national level. So different school districts (a district is usually the size of a town or county) get different amounts of funding.
kar5pt commented on It's Not Just Ukraine and Gaza: War Is on the Rise Everywhere bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/elsewhen
> It's Not Just Ukraine and Gaza: War Is on the Rise Everywhere
To quote a line from a nice movie: "The decline of the American empire, continues".
The American empire expanded too much in the last 30 years and, just like the Roman empire, it ignores its citizens. The greed and the lust for glory already started to take their toll. The funiest part is, that it is the US which is pushing hard for those wars, like they learned nothing from Vietnam, Irak or Afganistan.
You could argue they're enabling it, but not that they're pushing for it. Ukraine and Israel both have more will to fight than the US does.
kar5pt commented on No One Wants to Pay Anymore medium.com/@johnmoyle/no-... · Posted by u/underlipton
I was a manager, at a very cheap company that paid "competitive" wages (i.e., below market).
I had to work quite hard to make the team a pleasure to work at.
It seemed to have worked. When they finally rolled up US engineering, 27 years after I joined, the employee with the least tenure had a decade.
These weren't losers. They were highly experienced C++ image processing pipeline engineers.
Good managers make a difference.
Curious, what sort of things did you do?
kar5pt commented on Stack Overflow is laying off another 28% theverge.com/2023/10/16/2... · Posted by u/sprynr
Am I the only one that still finds SO to be quite useful? If I paste an error message into Google, it's still quite likely that the SO answer is the best one. And if it doesn't, I contribute an answer if/when I eventually find it because I still think I get more out of SO than I put in. I've received 21 necromancer badges doing that.
For Android development SO is pretty useless. I often find answers on there from <=2015. That's when Android 6 came out, its way too old to be relevant. But if you try to re-ask the same question they mark it as a duplicate.
kar5pt commented on Goldman Sachs reportedly said Apple Card savings account was a mistake 9to5mac.com/2023/10/16/ap... · Posted by u/ksec
I will say this: SA is a deeply troubled country, but for once I think the ruling government has actually done a good thing by pursuing this.