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This one is really fun for me. It has a lot of actions and good shapes.

If your whole computer life is using Safari or clicking apps, then yes, you might not ever see a "file".

I don't understand this viewpoint. There are plenty of us who find YouTube useful and willing to pay for the service. I'm not as sure as you are that an exodus will happen.

The U in UBI stands for Universal. Everyone gets the exact flat amount, unconditional. That means there is much less administrative cost (don't need to verify that people belong to certain income brackets for example). Overall, the theory is that it would reduce government wasteful administrative process, while being more effective at lifting people out of poverty. The experiments so far are positive.

Just curious, have you tried a more uncommon paragraph? Could it be the case that the model simply learned the poem due to it being in the training set?

When I was at Berkeley, the mean GPA was B- (around 2.7). It's unexpected to see 3.7 as the mean GPA in other universities. That's a whole grade point higher.

What would be some good data sources to find out this dataset for other US universities?

I paid for YT Premium for my whole family. It's the only subscription I paid for that I felt totally worth it. Our usage didn't change because we don't see ads.

The privileged people in Saigon fleeing the new regime escaped mostly via connection. For example, I know people here who fled on US airplanes/ships. They were educated, and most likely knew some French/English before coming here.

The "boat people" were more likely from the coastal town (like Vung Tau), who dropped everything and got on tiny boats, packed like sardines, hoped to get rescued from other fishing boats when getting out far enough to the ocean. They are often poor folks with nothing to lose, and willing to accept a coin flip chance between death and escaping to the US. For this part, I don't have the concrete statistics. But from the stories I have heard, the survival rate of those boat escapes is worse than 50%.

I'm Vietnamese.

The Vietnamese people you mentioned who escaped to the US decades ago were refugees. They were escaping a country where bombs were being dropped daily, famines were normal, and literally millions had died due to lack of food.

The literacy rate was 3%. In other words, the majority of those poor folks are not even fluent in writing their main language. Many of them, including my relatives, expressed the wish to learn English, but as you can imagine, it's pretty challenging. Some picked up enough to communicate, some gave up and depended on their children/grandchildren for translation. They had seen war and hell; being alive is a blessing.

I think this opinion is unnecessarily cynical. The people who navigate to school tend to have one or two school per year. They learn the route by heart mostly. Schools are not interchangeable for the one attending them. On the other hand, I don't keep track of grocery stores, and I'm much more likely to look for them on a map (especially to plan where to stop by along the road). There are more likely explanations here than to immediately jumping to the cynical interpretation.

It's clear from the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38365934#38368867

Specifically: use the original title, then express your view as a top level comment. If people agree with it, the comment is naturally voted up.

My bet is actually not on the recent security concern, but more about OpenAI "was not consistenly candid" on how it trained data. Facing the recent lawsuits, that would explain the hasty firing. The security concern is huge, but doesn't warrant an immediate firing.

Isn't this the keyword rewrite that had existed for decades? I remember they showing us similar slides during orientation back when I first interned more than a decade ago. The transformation from "kids" to "children" or "clothing" to "apparel/outfit" improves search results by adding more potential hits.

Do we know how much money Epic spent on the legal fights with Apple/Google compared to the rest of their operation expenses?

Does CD Project Red use Unity? A quick search shows that they have an in house engine, and switching to Unreal.

I don't think the "too much sugar" crisis in the US is due to people cannot feel there is too much sugar. It's just overly sweet food is the default in so many parts of the US. Ice cream here is much sweeter than in Asia. Cup cakes in the US can send me straight to sugar coma after just one bite.

When I asked a friend if they thought the cup cake was sweet. They said that isn't cup cake supposed to be sweet? And they don't think it's overly sweet since all the cup cakes they have had were like that.

I used to be a keyboard enthusiasts. I spent a lot of money on various keyboard. Then I got the Kinesis Advantage, and it completely changed me. I have now been typing on the same keyboard for 5+ years. And I probably haven't changed my layout in the last 4 years. It just works so well that I no longer see a need to "find something better".

I think it might be a result of selection bias when you see more "keyboard enthusiasts" with non ergonomic keyboard. When they find their fit with the right ergonomic keyboard/layout, they might not be that active with looking anymore.

This so much. I don't remember that spam calls exist anymore until I read a post someone complaining about getting spam calls. It works so well. I haven't had a false negative in the 3 years of using it. All the people who truly wanted to contact me would say something into the assistant, and the phone rang, and I'd pick it up.

> If you’d have presented anybody reading this with ChatGPT two years ago, they simply would not have believed it was possible.

2 years ago, Google Lambda was available internally for dogfooding. The hype was high for a couple months, and then it dropped off after the entertainment and novelty value wanned. It even led to a series of articles about a person claiming it to be sentient.

So yes, 2 years ago, plenty of people would have believed it was possible.

> but search seems worse every day.

Search is a reflection of the internet.

The internet has had exponentially more content recently. There are good content, but there are also exponentially more spammy and downright bad content. It's actually incredible that search can still be functional in such an adversarial environment filled with garbage.

> Chentsova Dutton and her team interviewed students from Turkey, Russia, Canada and the United States, asking them to describe a risky or dangerous experience they had in the _last month_. Both Turkish and Russian students described witnessing events that involved actual risk: violent fights on public transportation; hazardous driving conditions caused by drunk drivers; women being aggressively followed on the street.

> But American students were far more likely to cite as dangerous things that most adults do every day, like being alone outside or riding alone in an Uber.

The examples they listed about "violent fights" and similar are not common in the environment I'm living in. I probably have seen once in the last 10 years. I don't think it's a good question to ask especially about _last month_. For example, the most dangerous stuff I did last month was running on wet grass in the park and almost fell.

P.S: I'm not saying the result is wrong. I have concern about the research methodology. It feels cherry picked, and it makes me doubt the data.

> It is absolutely bizarre to me how half-assed Google is with integrating its products

The answer can be summed up in one word: "privacy".

There are two forces at play here. One side wants privacy. When they give data to Google Calendar, they don't want Google Maps or Ads know about it. The other side (your opinion above) wants more integration between services.

In this political climate, the privacy side has an edge. This means if Google Photos want to access data on Google Calendar to provide the integration you asked above, they will have to jump through multiple quarters of privacy reviews, with a very high odd of being shutdown.

> All these big tech companies seem to just give up on any kind of significant innovation as soon as they reach a certain level of monopoly on their market

After I see how the sausages are made, I think claims like these are naive. It's worth learning more about the factors at play before criticizing something. More often than not, the agents are acting pretty rationally based on the situation.

This already happens with Drone. you can only flight to locations approved as safe by the manufacturer, and they could ban a location without recourse.

A single item list is still a list.

As some one who has CC on all the time if possible, here is the simple reason why I do it: it saves time.

- when I play game, I don't need to restart or rewind if I missed a sentence.

- when I watch movie, similarly, I can capture way more context without having to ask "what did the character say?"

- when I click on a short clip, I can understand without having to turn on and off audio.

It's all about convenience and saving time for me.

> A low faction of Japanese people claim to "believe in God" but Japanese participate in religious rituals at a high rate

This is similar to what we have in Vietnam.

A very large portion of the country, last estimated about 80%, consider themselves atheists. They don't believe God exists, and they are superstitious only in a joking way.

However, most of us also go to the temple for "religious activities". It's not because people truly believe in God, but because many traditional activities like Tet holidays (Lunar New Year), funerals, or anniversaries have usually associated with them. Also, people don't mind going to the temples even when they don't believe in God because the temples are much more relax (chill/zen). When I was young, I visit the temple myself just to chill and enjoy the scenery despite having no association with Buddhism.

2000 seems really low. Do you happen to have a source for it?

It's assumed in your post that readability review is nitpicking. It's actually about making the code idiomatic, consistent, predictable, quickly understandable, and low mental stress while reading. The "nitpicking" parts you referred mostly is about ensuring code consistency and predictability. But there are more to readability than that:

1) did the code use a third party library while a standard lib is sufficient? Is there a way to use native language features (e.g. list comprehension) to make the code more idiomatic to people familiar with the language?

2) are the namings make sense in the business context? Can a new hire read just the public interface and be able to guess the usage?

3) do people have to jump around, full-text-search the code base to understand what's going on? Is automatic dependencies injection being overused? How many things people need to keep in their head to be able to follow this code?

It's all readability there, and I'd argue it's not only about style or formatting.

+1, I also focus first on readability while reviewing code.

Software engineering is a collaborative process. I don't write code for the machine; I write it for my colleagues and my future self to read. Code we write 6 months ago looks like someone else code. Readability is important unless you're convinced that it's prototype/throwaway code.

After readability then I'd look for tests. It's a theme: good tests are also meant to be read as documentation. Beside ensuring correctness, it's also the example my colleagues or future self can refer for the module usage.

I've never encountered this. Just curious, does that mean your friends couldn't read Harry Potter too? Or is there different standards between different forms of media?