> Everyone looks really busy though, I guess that’s all that matters anymore.
This is a dangerous tide incoming. I once had a conversation with a new exec as to why a certain team doesn't "look busy". In their mind people are just "coasting" and need to pull up their socks and improve delivery. The concept of being proficient and streamlined about your work simply didn't strike a chord. That place went downhill pretty fast.
Yeah, I’m already seeing it. Firefighting is rewarded, while actual planning and proactive work that avoids the need to firefight is viewed as lazy and people not doing anything.
People who write code with a lot of bugs end up looking like heroes, because they are always jumping in to fix their breaking code, while someone who takes the time to properly test and write solid code is seen as slow and less capable.
The house of cards just keeps growing, and everyone is on the verge of walking out.
There are many answers depending on what you meant by this, but in terms of actual risk this is probably not much worse to him than e.g. riding a motorcycle, and certainly better than what it would have been to be crew on the space shuttle.
As someone who is neither a Jew nor a Palestinian, I'm going to take this with a grain of salt, because there is so much mud being slung across from both sides.
There's no need to even take it with a grain of salt. The factual circumstances described in the article are extremely mundane, but the article tries to paint her participation as a problem by supposing that anyone participating in a public event should only do so if they can answer for every disparate opinion of everyone else there.
Part of the hacker news guidelines is to assume that everyone read the article, so obviously you read the sentence that started with:
> One can never control what others say or do at any public gathering but if actions take place that I disagree with, once this has been pointed out, it is right and important to explain one’s own position
This is an unfortunate trend we will see across software going ahead. When the bar to make something is low, the market is inevitably flooded by cheap and mediocre stuff that overshadow everything else. Soon there won't be an incentive to make high quality stuff because even if you did, you wouldn't be able to grab anyone's attention with it because it's all taken away by the endless slop that won't stop.
Basically, serving a small business whose key app they use got sold to private equity, has been turned into a subscription, support is now tickets they never get fixed, and the subscription goes up 20% a year.
Research confirms a wider variety of gut contents provides better health... "By increasing the variety of your diet, you can improve your gut health and overall well being" (and) "A diet rich in these foods helps maintain microbiome diversity and can reduce the risk of several diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease"
People at large have still not learned to question what they hear from social media or what youtube influencers tell them. So this is a far cry. If anything, I feel the population getting more vulnerable to suggestion compared to the pre- smartphone era.
> Asked about “the pros” of ChatGPT by Jimmy Fallon on a December episode of “The Tonight Show,” Altman talked effusively about the tool’s use for health care. “The number of people that reach out to us and are like, ‘I had this crazy health condition. I couldn’t figure out what was going on. I just put my symptoms into ChatGPT, and it told me what test to ask the doctor for, and I got it and now I’m cured.’”
I've always believed, don't blame the tool for the user, but can't help but feel the sellers are a little complicit here. That statement was no accident. It was carefully conceived to be part of discourse and set the narrative on how people are using AI.
It's understandable that they want to tout their tool's intelligence over imitation, so expecting them to go out of their way to warn people about flaws may be asking too much. But the least thing to do is simply refrain from dangerous topics and let people decide for themselves. To actively influence perception and set the tone on these topics when you know the what ramifications will be, is deeply disappointing.
This is a dangerous tide incoming. I once had a conversation with a new exec as to why a certain team doesn't "look busy". In their mind people are just "coasting" and need to pull up their socks and improve delivery. The concept of being proficient and streamlined about your work simply didn't strike a chord. That place went downhill pretty fast.
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