You are how you act - Hacker News

Posted by HiPHInch 10/27/2025

332 points | 185 commentspage 4

anon-3988 10/27/2025|

Our society lives and breathes this contradiction. We believe in determinism and demands justice. We believe in an omnipotent God and is sinful. On a personal level, there is quite literally nothing "you" can do to change yourself; to change oneself, one has to change to one that changes oneself. This is recursive. Looking at it this way, the important thing is to create an environment, situation, society that makes it easier to change oneself for the better. "Show me the incentives, and I will tell you what happens" as someone might say.

01284a7e 10/27/2025||

"...a 2016 internal memo written by Facebook executive Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, leaked in 2018, which stated that the company's growth was paramount and that negative consequences, such as harm from bullying or terrorism, were acceptable collateral damage".

Don't submit stuff from this guy, he is an atrocious human being.

SkyeCA 10/27/2025|

"You are how you act"...and unfortunately for people like him how they act is well documented.

skolskoly 10/27/2025||

Fake it til you make it is good. But, better yet, we figured out you can just keep faking it until some other sucker wants to hold the bag.

freedomben 10/27/2025|

I'm at a point where I'm hesitant to do any business with tech startups because I've been burned so many times by the "fake it til you make it" approach of saying their product did things it doesn't do. In one particular vendor's case, I found out about the fakery when the product I shipped on top of their platform keeps getting hacked.

I've probably swung the pendulum the other way too far, but I've gotten very direct and frank with what we have today, what we can deliver tomorrow, and whether it's something we won't add to our product.

analog8374 10/27/2025||

There's something to be said for honesty. There's a heart in there, to express, theoretically. Advantages might be enjoyed thereby.

raffael_de 10/27/2025||

I'd say the modern American self is best defined by what you believe how other's perceive you and whether you are popular or not.

stephenlf 10/27/2025||

Agency is key to (personal, not economic) growth

DavidPiper 10/27/2025||

Well that's a completely artificial either-or straw man.

It is possible to make progress while trying to do good. Lots of people do that.

pyrale 10/27/2025||

Interesting view from the CTO of Meta.

What does that make him?

haunter 10/27/2025||

>You are how you act

"Four Silicon Valley executives have been recruited into a specialist tech-focused unit of the US Army Reserves in a bid to “bridge the commercial-military tech gap” and make the armed forces “more lethal”."

" Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, the CTO of Meta – will “work on targeted projects to help guide rapid and scalable tech solutions to complex problems”." [0]

0, https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366626673/Silicon-Valley...

He is actively making the world worst for all of us, so sorry not sorry for not having any sympathy at all.

RickJWagner 10/27/2025|

If ever there was a group that could benefit from this advice, it is the famously spectrum-associated programmers.

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