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psyfi commented on ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire apnews.com/article/israel... · Posted by u/xbar

glass_saturn · 2 years ago

Respectfully, would you have made the same comment about 'finding a place in your heart for the humanity of the other' if we lived during the holocaust, where 'one side' was being maimed and killed by the other, more powerful side?

Would you have made the same comment if we were talking about apartheid in South Africa?

How about if we were talking about how slavery ought to be stopped prior to 1865?

Should we _always_ be looking to find the humanity in the other side, or is there something fundamentally different here?

Not trying to disrespect anyone here, but sometimes we need to ask ourselves tough questions.

psyfi · 2 years ago

> Respectfully, would you have made the same comment about 'finding a place in your heart for the humanity of the other' if we lived during the holocaust, where 'one side' was being maimed and killed by the other, more powerful side?

Yes..

> Should we _always_ be looking to find the humanity in the other side, or is there something fundamentally different here?

Yes..

psyfi commented on Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse vice.com/en/article/g5y37... · Posted by u/UncleOxidant

fruchtose · 2 years ago

The article's claim that AI is responsible for a shrinking job market is tenuous at best. Economic factors are much more relevant. Rising interest rates make tech companies less attractive to investors, and this filters through companies as smaller hiring budgets.[0] And we're seeing relatively high interest rates compared to a few years ago. I am far from convinced that efficiency gains from AI correlate with—much less cause—software engineering job cuts.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/technology/tech-interest-...

psyfi · 2 years ago

> The article's claim that AI is responsible for a shrinking job market is tenuous at best.

It serves its purpose as a clickbait

psyfi commented on Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone? · Posted by u/indus

psyfi · 3 years ago

Why not email groups? (also known as mailing lists)

Email groups are still actively used, provides pretty much same user experience usenet provides, can be decentralized (federated), easier to filter spam, can apply moderation (approve contributions before publishing) and all of us already use email for a reason or another.

psyfi commented on No salary wastes everyone's time · Posted by u/michaelteter

hakunin · 3 years ago

That's probably more true for simple products like toasters. For products where each one is almost always unique (has tons of optional choices, details) you can't easily shop around and compare apples to apples. You end up narrowing down to a few _mostly acceptable_ products in your vicinity, and then negotiating among those few.

To add: it's already difficult for a dealer to overcharge because even for complex/unique products we do have stats.

I just don't like the circular dependency of it. Companies follow an industry-wide stat to push all the people into preset salary tiers. The industry-wide stat is based on these same companies. The only way out is when some "rogue" companies allow some "rogue" employees to negotiate, and push the industry upwards.

psyfi · 3 years ago

I like the rogue idea.

psyfi commented on No salary wastes everyone's time · Posted by u/michaelteter

psyfi · 3 years ago

I tend to focus on what I can control:

I cannot make the job market makers play fair(?) game, but I can reach to current and past employees on linkedin and get the salary range myself, and discard interviews where it is hard to negotiate to an acceptable salary.

Also, some keywords in job ads shows more probabilty of lower than market salary, no company is really looking for someone who is looking for new challenges or who can wear many hats, they are just looking for affordable candidates

psyfi commented on No salary wastes everyone's time · Posted by u/michaelteter

danwee · 3 years ago

The junior version of myself would agree: when you are a junior you have little power of negotiation and you accept whatever the company offers to you at the end of the interview cycle (besides, if you manage to get to the end of the cycle, then you're probably thinking "I cannot let this opportunity pass"). So, if salaries are public, then you know what you are going for.

The senior version of myself wouldn't mind having no salaries advertised in job offerings. I know that now I have more power of negotiation and I know how much I should ask for in an interview. In order to not lose time in interviews, sometimes I tell upfront "BTW, I'm expecting at least X per year. Is that alright? Otherwise, goodbye and thank you for your time". Sometimes I don't say that and wait until the end because my guts (and the internet) tells me that the company can pay really well, so I want to make a good impression in the interview and ask for a 10% more of whatever salary they offer me first.

psyfi · 3 years ago

It is quite the opposite.

As a junior, you are more desperate for work to get experience, have less liabilities and would accept anything anyway, so the salary won't make much difference.

As a senior, your time worth more and you should not waste it on companies you are out of their league, you are less likely to accept a low salary as your liabilites need to be covered.

Yes, you can negotiate but your prespective assumes most companies would give you what you want eventually, which isn't true.

psyfi commented on Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit? · Posted by u/netfortius

VikingCoder · 3 years ago

I want something new.

I want a client that looks basically how reddit looks today. An aggregator.

And maybe that aggregator has a back-end that runs on a VM somewhere that I control, or I can pay someone to run an aggregator for me, or whatever.

But I want each subreddit to be federated. Run on its own server, with its own moderators.

I want to be able to make as many Reddit accounts as I want to (dozens, maybe not hundreds), and pick which ones I use on which subreddits. Some decentralized authorization / authentication scheme? Or maybe some centralized server? Or using OAuth or something? I don't really care.

I want to SUBSCRIBE to a list of Admins. If an Admin shadowbans a user, I don't see their posts. I find this incredibly useful. Other people will disagree with me about which users, which actions, should result in shadowbanning.

I think that about wraps it up. What am I missing?

psyfi · 3 years ago

Sounds like you are talking about lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/)

psyfi commented on Ask HN: Could Usenet get revived, to replace the soon to be unusable Reddit? · Posted by u/netfortius

psyfi · 3 years ago

Usenet would be perfect

Thunderbird still supports NNTP.

psyfi commented on Social media can be a ‘profound risk’ to youth, surgeon general warns nytimes.com/2023/05/23/we... · Posted by u/2OEH8eoCRo0

dathinab · 3 years ago

Not sure why you are down voted but this is really a really really big issue.

This is why "large scale action" e.g. from school or better regulators are needed and why parents only can act very limited.

Don't force social isolation on your children just because idk. "this game is bad". Even if they social circle is "good" and doesn't start excluding or harassing them because of this (totally can happen, you can't really choose with whom you are in a class) it still is leads to a subtle isolation which might by itself not cause any mental issues, but can amplify existing issues, prevent mental scare from being healed etc. And such issues don't always come from "big bad thing" sometimes small bad things wrongly processed as a child can be enough to cause life long mental issues if the child has never the chance to reprocess/recondition/overcome them.

EDIT: Just to be clear doesn't mean children should have unchecked social media/game/etc. access.

psyfi · 3 years ago

Not allowing your children to own a phone ≠ Force social isolation.