Other comments pointed out the semi-obvious use of AI due to em dashes.
I'm honestly at a point where every suspicious aspect of that post could as well be counted as a countermeasure to getting caught. Said engineer could still be working at the company or could've left years ago. In my opinion the mentioned financial adjustments could've been a discussion topic for higher ups far far earlier than 2025.
Considering how ruthless Uber has acted thorough the years[0] I am almost 100% sure other startups with similar opportunities have at the very least committed crimes on a similar scale to the linked Reddit confession.
Bonus option: The Reddit account starts astroturfing in a few weeks and this was just a run-of-the-mill bot automation to gain karma which happened to overlap with HN interests.
Counterpoint: I've been using em dashes and bulleted lists in my writing (especially in work emails) since around 2015. There are dozens of us! Or maybe I'm just an LLM in a meat suit — who knows at this point.
It is a nasty aftereffect of the copyright law expanding like cancer.
I would gladly go back to the older 14+14 system, even though I have nontrivial income from royalties. In my opinion, copyright should motivate people to create new things, not one cash cow that they then will milk for eternity.
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Reddit is weird these days. I'm not even sure how this is related to fonts.
Nine hours after this was posted the link is 404'ing and about 90% of the links in the comments are also showing a 404. Is some Amazon employee spending their friday afternoon manually removing product listings?
It's Amazon's signature style to make the bad press go away without addressing the underlying issue that generated the bad press to begin with. Their culture is to hand everyone a pager and pull them in to fix the "problem" through just-in-time heroics rather than spend the money to build a system that's resilient to suckage in the first place. And "fixing" means tediously swatting down specific instances that are made public.
1. Allow 20,000 bads to happen through systemic enshittification
2. Get called out on 20 of the bads
3. Hurry up and have some poor sap manually "fix" the bads being highlighted in the public forum
4. "We've fixed every bad we've been informed of!"
That's exactly why this situation feels a little weird. Usually Amazon usually just lets things like this slide.[1]
Amazon initially didn't take the product down from its site after being informed of these results, saying it had documentation supporting its safety, according to the Journal. Later Amazon did remove the product, saying it would ask for more documentation from the company it had used to test it.
I never expected to find a feature like that in the settings menu of an operating system. Is there any history to this? How’d a white noise generator end up in the official Apple accessibility settings?
The idea of having a setting that makes my phone emit continuous noise until I turn it off is absolutely wild to me.
I didn't mean for that phrase to be flippant. I literally just meant whatever reasons there are. There's plenty of good ones. Some people are mute, some people have speech issues, etc.
At least some part of it has to be the amount of attention these news pieces get on wsb itself. The subreddit has about 1.5 million subscribers. Any news piece by Bloomberg or Wallstreetjournal talking about r/wallstreetbests instantly gets posted over there and usually garners huge amounts of upvotes. Pretty much free traffic/ad impressions.
Yeah; it's a similar phenomenon to when parts of the financial press were taking bitcoin perhaps more seriously than it warranted a few years ago. Good way to expose the enthusiasts to your ads.
I'm honestly at a point where every suspicious aspect of that post could as well be counted as a countermeasure to getting caught. Said engineer could still be working at the company or could've left years ago. In my opinion the mentioned financial adjustments could've been a discussion topic for higher ups far far earlier than 2025.
Considering how ruthless Uber has acted thorough the years[0] I am almost 100% sure other startups with similar opportunities have at the very least committed crimes on a similar scale to the linked Reddit confession.
Bonus option: The Reddit account starts astroturfing in a few weeks and this was just a run-of-the-mill bot automation to gain karma which happened to overlap with HN interests.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Uber