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Also: switch it up?

I propose using Facebooks old name and switching one A to I (iThings?). Then we could call them MAFiA.

As far as I understand, it's mostly the weights. If you only have the models, you're still gonna need to get a massive amount of training material, huge costs for training it and fine tuning the hyper params until it works.

Hmmm... I'd day restoring a bad review would be even more suspicious. Let them come naturally and don't delete them - unless the company reconsiders the benefits of premier, that is.

> that anyone realized

Not to be pedantic, but lots of people "realized" (or predicted) this, myself included.

He promised something, charged for it, and had little to show for. To me that's a big mistake, not little "ooopsie shit happens".

And it's not clear this will be fixed 10 years from now. Experimental research often fails in some stage between research and production.

On the other hand, consumers have little control over businesses. I'd be fine with eco friendly delivery, eg more wait time to minimize trips in the neighborhood, electric cars, etc. Most of the time I'm sitting on a full online cart for days, and removing stuff I don't really need until I'm happy with the order: I can wait.

But where's that option?

I just take my rare (and voluntary) office days as socialization days: more talking, longer lunch hours, longer breaks.

Its fine once in a while but I don't wanna get back to WFO again.

For some, it's a pay cut, in money and free time. It's a valid reason they'd rather change job.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538

If encryption is illegal, you are suspected of having to encrypted data and don't provide the keys, the police won't be puzzling about what's random or encrypted bytes: they'll interrogate you, abuse you and throw you into jail.

I also think there's something to it: each person is different.

I've smoked and quit a couple of times, and still get urges to go back sometimes. Meanwhile, I know people who casually smoke once in a while and don't get the habit.

I have mixed feelings about this.

One one hand, I have experimented with co-pilot and this was my experiencerience - great when it worked, easy to fix when it didn't.

On the other hand, I worry people are not ready for this - get these magical answers and go double check them. Most people don't read the Wikipedia referenced they just trust it - are they going to double check LLMs?

It is.

OP is stating his love for the worst parts of games. This would be like someone saying they love pages filled with ads, chat bots, pop-ups, auto play and scripts which take seconds to load.

I hate when a long technical document doesn't use BLUF, ie omits a summary at the start with the main topics.

There's too much info on the internet, and even in internal documentation: if I have to read half the thing to understand if it's relevant, I'm gonna spend most of my time on irrelevant stuff.

This is a problem with asking engineers to document without having a writing culture. I've seen it happen: once it's written down, that's it: it's documented, great work! But we should treat it more like code, with clear divisions of concern s, scopes and even refactors when needed!

That's the status quo - a distinction between owner and employee. And it's good for the owners, who get to maximize profits - but is it good for employees? I'd say there's less risk, but they get impacted when business is down, and may not reap the profits when business is good.

Some companies are experimenting with other models - there's no law or force of nature saying an employee can't be a partial owner of a business.

Or just "free hosting", no further details needed. Later they may say "this was unsustainable and we will drop this", and that would be OK.

I feel you - I worked on a project with pdf generation and the tool to generate it was quite heavy.

Looks great, thanks for the experience!

Personally I'd like a "table of contents" where you get the title, a summary and an example. Then you could scroll and learn a bit about all techniques, clicking in one that piqued your interest.

I'm not sure if that's easy or not. Let me know if I can help.

And does Utah have a strong sex education curriculum, to teach children about it?

I assume no - it's just a ban on sinful behavior.

Thanks for the link. It's surprising how much credit is given to a charlatan, even in hacker news.

In general, people with a conscience and acting accordingly suffer more or less gravely. Perhaps this is to be expected, unfortunately.

We should support whistle-blowers much more, but this feels like a problem very hard to solve. How can we trust the state to protect those denouncing the state? Or corporations protecting those denouncing the corporation?

Seems like it's inevitable that the person will be at odds against the organization.

Weren't there millions of pages or documents to review?

But even so, those demand him to be 100% ethical, why don't they also demand that from the NSA and the rest of the state?

He did it in a responsible way. Perhaps if there was better support for whistle-blower he could have done it even better.

I think I read this about the original Simpsons: they were very critical of certain things, such as environmental dangers. But most people tuning in fantasize their role in protecting the environment, then go in with their lives without doing much about it.

I think this is deep in all sorts of media with a positive message - scratch the moral itch so you don't have to do it in reality.

UX and usability tests are dead. It's all shiny UIs and A/B testing now (and the metric is always profit, never ease of use or safety).

I think you can use this to rationalize every shitty practice as long as it gets you customers.

I'm not annoying: I'm annoyed by these annoying practices.

That's an interesting dilemma between free speech and moderation.

I'd also say the current system is better, but losing the dislike button and pushing for positive sentiment can lead to fake positivity which we should beware.

Reminds of the anime "Avatar", where there's an episode featuring a character with an outrageous fake smile who turned out to be sort of a political oppressor.

I wish the headline said that: "methane not as bad as thought, still very harmful".

The video of Google driving a blind person to taco bell was uploaded 11 years ago. I don't think it's that fast paced.

Trying to schedule things with people gets harder with each new element. So I usually schedule with my best friends (3 people) and just let the rest know about it: if they can join, cool, if they can't, there's always next time.

But I've disconnected from some people who are really bad at this, eg asking for lots of changes and rarely taking initiatives. I'm an introvert and reaching out to distant friends feels weird to me, even if it happens the conversation doesn't flow.

(but one thing that helps me is pushing myself to thinking out loud, instead of being insecure of what to talk about. Weird topics sometimes make the best chats)

I'm a night howl. Having a work schedule helps this, but when I was a student doing my thesis I had awful sleeping schedules (6 am - 2 pm) which affected my social life a lot.

I wanted to improve this, but going to bed earlier would make me restless, and have even worse sleep. Forcing myself to wake up earlier was torture - be exhausted during the day, only to feel energetic at evening again, and not being able to sleep earlier.

So I "rotated the day". Each day, I went to bed 3 (or 4?) hours later, slept 8h, and woke up. This was a bit tiring, but not more than the other alternatives! It worked for a few weeks but later I went back to my old habits.

After 2 rotations, I went to the doctor and got calming medications and the the recommendation to go to sleep 1h earlier each day. This was much easier and I didn't get dependent on the medication.

Later, having a job with a schedule (not that rigid but also not super flexible) helped me get on track, and things haven't gotten so bad.

Or more likely, spy on its citizens and find a loop hole to get privacy for themselves.