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eh9··on New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
I was just asking my partner who’s a writer if it would even be fair to train a model based on a student at Nth grade if the whole point is to measure growth. Would there be enough “stylistic tokens” developed in a young person’s writing style?
eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
This is the dumbest comment I’ve read on here.
eh9··on Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says
Nope. It’s a lot whiter than u think https://www.eeoc.gov/special-report/diversity-high-tech
eh9··on Google exec fired after female boss groped him at drunken bash, suit says
Of course, statistically speaking, it was probably only 80-90% white male.
eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
Bros being unprofessional?
eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
“Maze of exceptions” so you want to hear racism and violence? Gtfo if Andrew Tate is what you want.
eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
You’re mad at the wrong demographic. Direct your anger higher up, not at people working and not at regular ass people who are willing and able to save, but also have life obligations that make that difficult. The upper middle class isn’t the actual enemy, despite their accessibility & visibility to you which, I know, can be grating.
eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
Please name a single instance of an individual being “cancelled” for anything but bigotry, hatred, violence, or dangerous rhetoric. I’ll wait.

People aren’t being cancelled for speaking their minds. They’re being cancelled when speaking their minds is literally offensive to small and large groups of people.

Almost every time someone is complaining about cancel culture, what they’re really complaining about is being held accountable for the dumb shit they say or want to say.

Also, “shifting social norms”, lol, from what to what, if you don’t mind me asking?!

Edit: you can downvote me but you can’t produce a single example.

eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
… cancel culture is about holding people accountable… It’s not about canceling employees because of dissenting at work.
eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
Most Americans don’t have $1000 in savings.
eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
I would argue that a disproportionate number of FAANG employees have lifestyle crept outside the realm where existing social programs could be helpful. Healthcare in this country is still practically tied to your employer (or super expensive cobra) and in this industry that employment is likely at-will, so that assistance doesn’t feel sufficient. At least not for a country that purports to be the world’s primary economic engine (maybe at exporting exceptionalism).
eh9··on Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?
HR is mostly there to reduce risk for the employer.
eh9··on DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection
Stop doing this. Have teachers figure out how to move forward with this and students, but the false-positives are not worth it
eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
Those laws allow the state to ignore the consent of children. We can, and should, find those laws federally unconstitutional.
eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
Yes. Physical, emotional, or sexual mistreatment. Why would anyone need to engage in that kind of “negative reinforcement”?
eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
Regardless of cultural norms or what parents might try, it’s violence against people who can’t consent. Violence is always abuse.
eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
The ONLY remaining hold out in the UN.

Republicans will not pass this because it calls for children to receive, among other things, access to health care.

eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
Well, thank you for pointing out that I’m wrong.

It doesn’t sting to be wrong, but the reality makes me feel like shit.

eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
It’s violence performed by state actors or businesses with liabilities. In my opinion, it’s child abuse.
eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
Child abuse is any physical, emotional, or sexual mistreatment or neglect of a child.

Corporal punishment can be harmful to children and may lead to long-term negative outcomes, such as increased aggression, mental health problems, and poor academic performance.

That’s not to speak to who’s enforcing it and on who.

eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
Let the kids press charges.
eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
I don’t want to speak to your personal trauma, but child abuse is never an effective tool.
eh9··on It's legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
A child in a similar situation could be removed from their home. Shouldn’t protection agencies be involved?

This feels like state sponsored child abuse. When does the federal government intervine?

eh9··on Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage
Admitting attacks can lead to more attacks if you’re not prepared
eh9··on Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
Well, he did personally misuse the platform, but go for the company. Idk. I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know how 230 plays into this, but his actions could have led to an innocent person getting hurt.
eh9··on Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
These specific founder types are so painfully unaware. I’m sure it’s the same idiot who put out a push notification with a $30K bounty on the wrong guy.
eh9··on Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
THAT is a ridiculous belief and a great example of confirmation bias.

You don’t need to monitor crimes happening around you. Go meet your neighbors and build community.

eh9··on Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
It’s nimby catnip.
eh9··on Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
Companies are people until you want to press charges.
eh9··on Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
He should be held personally liable
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