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Society has settled on certain norms that shame certain behavior (6 or 7 day work weeks for example) but I’m sure unions are more agile in demanding certain things for groups that need more than those norms.

I am with you on the competitive workforce groups though. Large corporations don’t need to feed you three meals a day and bus you in from hours away but they do to entice workers. There are some economics at play that probably are more effective for certain groups of workers. The less skilled and more replaceable the job though, the more a business can take advantage because it’s a race to the bottom.

Without laws and unions, I fully believe some industries would still have slaves, horrible unsafe conditions, etc. Laws are probably more vital than unions IMHO

Paywalled so I can’t see the details but was it offered to 25% assuming much less would actually accept? I have to assume a minority take the deal

Yea I struggle playing Spotify across home devices. My kids will start music in their rooms on smart speakers and it uses my account, so when I am listening elsewhere it stops (or plays their music). I even have a family spotify account but no one does a great job managing the handoff. As a single person, loved spotify account sharing across devices. Now not so much

It is ridiculous but to be fair, the harnesses can do some interesting things that your toaster can’t. Yes you are right, if I say “argue x” it will go and do that but if I say, research the validity of their comment, fix if it’s valid, manually test the final product, that’s a bit different. It can be almost as smart as you tell it to be. That’s why I say intern haha. If you want to be irresponsible or if you aren’t knowledgeable on the subject of the prompt, you can still wind up sounding/looking quite dumb

I feel this deeply... but as an engineer at a big tech company. Over the past decade, I meticulously learned the code base and frameworks, attained readability of various programming languages, etc. I carefully wrote and reviewed code from engineers that took the time to understand what was there and how to make it better or add to it. Carefully crafting comments for feedback every so carefully to not over critique. Over the past 6 months, I have come to realize that world no longer exists. With scores of seemingly high quality code reviews from folks that don't understand what they are contributing to, it's impossible to keep up. I am also not at a place where I can say, I'm making a smaller trusted circle. Many folks in my circle are simply ramping up the quantity of code they want me to review. I simply have to rely more and more on AI to review the code and help me figure out what exactly it does. At the same time, I am also needing to generate more and more code to keep up with the expectations of those around me. We are now instructing our agents to leave comments, having the agents respond to those comments, even long threads where the agents debate technical decisions either both human author and human reviewer almost totally removed from the loop.

We are all getting more and more removed from the profession of writing code. It's like we abstracted away all of the details of writing code and we are spending our days just sending 100 interns on project quests.

I think some will adapt with the times and others will get burned out. This may be the end of open source as we know it, and maybe altogether...

Just because something happens doesn't mean that its intentional. I think this is really a byproduct of having no one that stands up for the injustice. Who is the voice for people in prison? No one wants to take credit for family members that are there and the ones that get out usually struggle to get back on their feet let alone drive change in the system.

I think another good example of this is through public infrastructure. Look at any poor neighborhood in a city and look how little public infrastructure is invested in those areas. Usually big busy roads with no sidewalks, crosswalks, etc. The city doesn't hate those areas, it's just that the people that live in those areas aren't effective (or unable) to lobby elected officials to invest. Also there is a little bit of a self fulfilling prophecy with lack of investment causing less businesses to want to invest, etc.

Some reasons I don't use them anymore (in no specific order)

1. I have had them subtly mess with websites I am working on and I probably wasted multiple hours troubleshooting an issue that wasn't an issue

2. I have had them break a web form when I was trying to purchase something

3. I have purchased some things I like from ads and wouldn't have discovered otherwise

4. I don't frequent websites that overuse them or I can't work around them

5. I'm on a work laptop sometimes and I'm not allowed to use them for corp security reasons

6. I'm not sure I trust the ad blockers themselves, their developers, or their own app security

7. It's another process that can slow down viewing a webpage

Surprised this comment is so low, was searching for it. Many fruits that you commonly peel can even contain both waxes and pesticides to keep insects out. You aren’t even able to wash it effectively.

Things like cantaloupes, oranges, etc are famous for harboring bad bacteria and pesticides. Does not seem worth the risk to me…

I used to watch people collect dandelions and weeds in NYC parks to make into tea and consume in other ways. I’m sure there are some benefits but I’m also sure they don’t outweigh the risks from pollutants.

I know someone who pasted all their six sigma certification questions directly into an AI tool and they got a 98% on their exam. Seems like it would help their exam score too if they were allowed to use it on both the homework and exams /s

Facebook marketplace driving me crazy lately. A lot of people post photos of antiques and other furniture with obvious AI staging. It’s hard to tell what is real and what isn’t. At least there I can just demand the normal photos. I know that isn’t the case with most rentals in NYC because it’s super competitive and already gated in ridiculous ways with brokers and real estate agents.

The HN crowd is not the usual demographic for call centers. Im willing to generalize a vast majority of callers can find the info they are looking for if they tried a little

A few thousands of years of skin bags dragging ourselves around a rock is practically nothing in the scope of the universe.

Or another take, life isn't all that special if we can make it this easily.

We have always theorized the start of life but this could actively show that life could have started on a rock floating in space given enough time. No sky daddy and no aliens necessary!

My name is Roman (father was Italian born in Rome and identifies as a Roman) and I always find it interesting that people try to speak something that sounds like Russian to me. Never thought about the fact they might think I’m Romanian and are speaking Romanian!

I say it’s a simple value proposition.

A few examples

Audio book narration. Human narrators are paid a seemingly ridiculous amount of money to literally read a book out loud. We have the tech to replace them, it’s actually pretty dang good, and it is substantially cheaper to do with computers. It’s pretty accurate too. In the audio book industry though, if you take your book seriously you have a real person read it. The best one you can find that you like. Readers enjoy hearing good narrators and the total value one narrator can bring is very high mostly because the value scales well.

Another real world example that doesn’t scale well, call centers. Customers want humans, but execs have tried to replace them with automation in every way possible. The margins of a business get squeezed because the value of the human touch doesn’t scale well in this case.

Translation falls a bit in the middle. I’m sure ChatGPT is good enough for some people. If you are a restaurant and need to understand what you are ordering at the local authentic Italian restaurant it’ll do the job. If you have a bad food allergy? Maybe not, you are willing to pay for accuracy because that’s what a human brings

So the answer to the question posed in the article, can’t you just upload it to ChatGPT? Maybe yea maybe no