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by tqi 2y ago
> I have written before in The Atlantic about a problem that I see as superordinate to all of these others: People just aren’t meant to talk with one another this much The irony of publishing an article intended for a mass audience about
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"fact"
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> Hiring processes should focus on problem-solving, collaboration, and growth in relevant areas. Unrealistic expectations don’t attract the best talent – they just exhaust and discourage it. If companies want adaptable developers, they s
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by tqi 2y ago
Hm but if that is the case, then why did LLMs only fail at the tasks for a few word/letter combinations (like r's in "Strawberry"), and not all words?
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Is "memetic" a word that is widely known, or is it like a shibboleth for a specific subgroup of very online libertarian types?
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I assume LLMs will be fairly average at chess for the same reason it cant count Rs in Strawberry - it's reflecting the training set and not using any underlying logic? Granted my understanding of LLMs is not very sophisticated, but I w
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by tqi 2y ago
Can you clarify what the difference between the Developer Edition and normal edition are? It's not clear from the checkout flow if this is required in order to create plugins, and is not mentioned anywhere in the docs.
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> Glassdoor is a credible source of information that has been cited in previous empirical studies (Kim and Ra, 2022; Kyiu et al., 2023; Symitsi et al., 2018) and the ubiquity of the Internet in the job search process also lends statistic
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Vertical error for GPS is about 2X to 3X more than horizontal error[1], so the barometer helps correct that. [1] https://www.nstb.tc.faa.gov/reports/2020_Q4_SPS_PAN_v2.0.pdf...
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Of the point that outcomes have been getting worse for decades?
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How does that qualify as evidence that "outcomes have been getting worse for decades?"
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That other than 2020 (ie COVID), life expectancy has been continuously rising for the last 100 years?
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by tqi 2y ago
> over the decades it has only gotten (exponentially) more and more expensive There is a lot of research on this question, and AFAIK there is no clear cut answer. It's probably a host of different reasons, but one of the non-nefario
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> We didn’t call it AI at first. The first thing that happened was these new innovations just crept into our electronic medical record system. They were tools that monitored whether specific steps in patient treatment were being followed
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"There are too many profitable incentives... Power generally resides with those who benefit... The system is setup to fail because that's what's profitable in the long run for those seeking such profits. And because they can
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by tqi 2y ago
"let's use our very scarce resources helping the bottom kids... They're doing what they can with the resources they have." I'm not convinced that resources are actually that scarce (the US has the second-highest amo
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Salaries on Display: Unintended Consequences of Wage Disclosure(papers.ssrn.com)
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"This study examines whether wage disclosure assists employers in suppressing wages. Economic theories suggest that wage disclosure might facilitate wage coordination among employers by aiding coordination and monitoring for deviations
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> You could have moved Mount Fuji with a teaspoon, but that doesn't matter unless they are on board with whatever you did. If they are, then that accomplishment will be billed as "did something nobody else could possibly do&quo
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My point is literally everything you suggested "upper" management do to evaluate managers are things the article suggests doesn't work when it comes to evaluating individual contributors.
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Does the nyt tech guild have a union security agreement? If so, how does that work with remote workers in right to work states? If not, are non union workers also required to walk out (or be considered crossing the picket lines)?
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> One has to talk to peers, subordinates and superiors and do anonymous feedback, in addition to random checks But the article claims you can't trust peer reviews, and that managers should just "know" what their reports (i
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by tqi 2y ago
I certainly sympathize with the underlying sentiment, but this post seems to boil down to "managers should be better!" which... yes, definitely. But how? If you're not going to to use metrics (agree that we are very limited b
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Dismissing any form of dissent as purely the result of propaganda is not a good way to bring people to your side. > In what world should a UNION of the workers care about the COMPANY? Maybe if the workers in the union partly owned the co
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by tqi 2y ago
> The vast majority of HN consists of developers, designers, QA, and PMs who stand to gain from a successful movement to win these rights. Personally, I have considered the arguments and concluded that I am not interested in collective b
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> I'm referring to making a deliberate design decision to discard data at a later time. I'm willing to bet that your cloud storage or SaaS applications likely serve as dumping grounds for outdated, forgotten files and artifacts
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The path they took to get to this pledge feels very similar to the path anti-vaccination advocates took (ie something intuitively "feels" bad -> look for evidence to support that). If a study came out that showed evidence that
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[preface that this response is obviously operating on very limited context] "Wanting to tick some meeting boxes" feels a bit ungenerous. Ideally, a production outage shouldn't be a single mistake away, and it seems reasonable
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TBH it feels like Dropbox has a pretty fair earnings multiple at the moment (~4X). Have we reached a point where tech companies have been around long enough that they can / should enter a sort of maintenance mode? It feels like there i
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I think most people don't care, or at least don't care enough to make a different decision.

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