This is great concept with a strong execution. Interested to see how the price-point resonates relative to typical frequency of use.

This is particularly worrisome because it highlights an entirely new scope to the challenges associated with journalism. Having a deep fake create tons of normal content to then use specific pieces to target a person/agenda will be extremely difficult to deter.

Just gifted it for my mom. Hoping it kick-starts some better habits for her.

Awesome, excited to hear what she thinks about it.

Just checked out Newsy and created a site. Great concept and product! Excited to see if I get any traction from it.

Thanks for the feedback! I agree that there are layers of distinction between normal onboarding vs unique. We would strive to play at the 1st and 2nd layer. I'll keep this guidance in mind.

Thanks for the feedback. The alumni partnership piece is a great idea as they may be willing to front the cost.

Great feedback - thanks for the questions.

-Re: your first question, we are aiming to build a team of broadly-skilled experts with depth. Ultimately we will ensure the coaching experts are well-qualified.

-There will definitely be money-back guarantees. Also, we are considering free trial periods

Yes/No. Here, probably. Elsewhere, no. In China, their facial recognition has got so good that they can track people even with face masks on: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/how-china-built-...

Also if you add gait recognition, you can add as many masks and hoodies as you want, but you will not escape recognition.

Would wearing some kind of full length cloak or burqa-sequence garment that obscures a lot of movement be a plausible counter? Obviously they can’t obscure everything about your gait, but I imagine they’d take away enough useful information to make it significantly harder.

Probably, but at that point you'd stand out to humans! Imagine being at an airport...

Standing out to humans is plausibly less of am issue than being monitored and recorded and your data stored in perpetuity.

Humans will forget about you, data recorded about you will be stored an reused and abused for who knows how long.

Good point. I was thinking that in a case of an oppressive gov you wouldn't be able to wear these things anyway.

For now, but if everyone was wearing one it could work.

OP here: While I appreciate the feedback and understand parts of it, I think writing general pieces that can help broader audiences still can be valuable. The piece wasn't designed to cover simply today's reality but tomorrow as well.

OP here: While I do share my articles here often, I think the content can be valuable to folks who recently lost their jobs or are looking for jobs. Regarding point 1, sometimes general advice is still practical. Regarding point 2, not all HN content is tech specific. 3: I included the links to tech companies hiring.

No worries, I just wanted to point out some things I felt were factual about my experience with A. happening upon at largely tech/stem-irrelevant news story and thinking "Gee, why is this here if it's not relevant? I want Tech/STEM -relevant news, which is the purpose of HN." and then B. clicking your HN username and seeing you've been doing this for a while. and then C. realizing "Hey, this is misuse, and I am going to point it out."

I think given that this is "Hacker" News, founded by YCombinator, an technology incubator ("seed accelerator"), that the spirit of this forum is to keep the discussion purely Tech, STEM & Tech/STEM-business related. Not articles which have no clear emphasis on these core topics.

In respect to Social Contract, I'd prefer that YCombinator isn't flooded by every blogger who thinks their non-tech or STEM article should be posted on a Tech/STEM related news forum. I'd prefer that you don't consider this a traffic outlet to boost your articles' views & visits, especially then they're not Tech/Stem relevant.

In terms of links to tech companies hiring-- If I were blogging and wanted views from a Tech/STEM news forums' visitors, I would make the clear, overarching focus of my article Tech/STEM related. I think this approach is would be more respectful to the purpose & visitors of this forum.

OP: "Doo daa doo... let me just go post my article on HackerNews just because I need some views"

> I think given that this is "Hacker" News, founded by YCombinator, an technology incubator ("seed accelerator"), that the spirit of this forum is to keep the discussion purely Tech, STEM & Tech/STEM-business related. Not articles which have no clear emphasis on these core topics.

Please re-read the site guidelines. This is not the case. (FWIW, I would personally agree that this article isn't a great fit, but not for that reason)

Ah gotcha. Hence I preceeded it with "I think..." Which part is not the case?

There is no restriction to "purely Tech, STEM & Tech/STEM-business related".

I would prefer if there was.

I can go anywhere any get junk news. I come to HN for STEM/Tech & similar/related business news