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Push factors and pull factors work together far more effectively than either do on their own.

> Your example on the other hand I didn't find. I didn't find anyone claiming that two questions are duplicate of one another in different programming languages unless the language is not relevant.

Did... Did you just mentally mark my comment as a duplicate question and copy/paste an unrelated answer?

Comments are not for extended discussion. The important relevant information that was here has been moved to a confusing different page where it will never be seen again.

The percentage of questions closed as duplicates that actually

1. Were actually duplicates of existing questions 2. That had a correct, up to date answer

was definitely less than 1%

Have you ever read its sequel?

If you haven't, it's pretty bad and definitely a factor in why the original didn't have very much cultural impact.

People have been saying that CAs are a bad idea since CAs were first proposed.

The problem is that those same people tend to disappear as soon as you ask "So what should we do instead?"

As the percentage of technology controlled by people actively using it to do evil increases, so does the net value to society of a trivially-expliotable zero-day.

During runtime research? Maybe, but most of what an LLM says doesn't come from runtime research.

During training? Not a chance.

Actual question: Is there something I can do as a citizen to try to get this moron fired and replaced by someone smart enough to do research before starting a project?

If the answer is "Contribute to a state politician's campaign", any tips on which would be the highest leverage?

I admit "We don't have to comply with the standard if we don't claim to comply with the standard" is tautologically true.

But it does kind of support the whole "GCC C is not standard C" point.

Yeah, how DARE people under 40 want somewhere to live!

This entire article seems to be based on an assumption that the cost of batteries will go down 33% over the next 10 years because demand is so high, but costs of gas turbines will go up over the next 10 years because demand is so high.

Neither of these assumptions are based on anything other than "That's the number we had to put in to the model to get the conclusion we want".

That's straight-up incorrect. A massive new investment is by definition expense-neutral.

Negative cash flow from investing means that some prior investment has been shown to be worth far less than they paid for it.

I think you're underestimating how much of this is driven by the fact that YouTubers get paid by the watch-minute.

I have some bad news: Playing the new game will not make you 14 with no responsibilities again, no matter how good a job they do making it.

I think "locally hosted LLMs" and "frontier LLMs hosted by frontier labs" will both end up as less than 1% of "Open Source LLMs hosted remotely by a lowest-bidder commodity compute provider"

This is how the "Chotiner interview" became such a meme.

It somehow worked out that there is exactly one interviewer in the United States that is willing to fail The Test. Because Isaac Chotiner is the only journalist who ever fails The Test, his guests are frequently completely unprepared for what to say in the case that someone doesn't just agree with whatever babble they're spouting and will sometimes just blurt out the true thing they weren't supposed to say.

A job posting that's open for over a month without hiring someone is absolutely a ghost job!

The evidence for ghost jobs existing is that a majority of hiring managers openly admit to posting ghost jobs:

https://clarifycapital.com/job-seekers-beware-of-ghost-jobs-...

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12977

I'm still waiting for they evidence they don't exist, which was conspicuously absent from your post despite its length.

> if companies hired all the SWEs they wanted they wouldn't still have the listings

I honestly can't tell if this a troll or not, but in case it isn't:

Because "number job openings" are used as a signal of company health, Ghost Jobs are far far more common than job listings which companies intend to hire from!

No, the exact opposite! A high percentage of ghost jobs indicates that there are very few actual jobs open in the field, which suggests an oversupply of workers.

Do you have a source on that?

It would be genuinely shocking to me if someone came up with evidence that the majority of jobs on job sites were made by companies that actually intended to hire the best candidate that applied through that site!

Okay, but the article literally uses "Union Jack" as a primative.

So, wait. Are you saying each transaction has to be individually approved by the account holder?

Because that would break the subscription-based billing model for a lot of businesses.

How are chargebacks resolved in this situation?

This is an important question- most of the costs of a credit card providers come from dealing with fraud and chargebacks. That's partially because, under US law, credit card companies have to eat fraudulent charges if they can't get the person or company that did the fraud to do so. (Funnily enough, this is one of two places where protections for average people in the US are significantly better than protections for average people in Europe).

But credit card companies can keep their costs low by making a business decision not to renew the accounts of frequent chargeback-ers or chargeback-ees (even if they never officially found those individuals at fault). If the government had to make a payment system for everyone and take on all responsibility for all fraud, that would create an incentive with massive second-order effects.

Google Pay and Google Play are completely separate products that might as well be from different companies

This entire article is the bad toupee fallacy.

Readers think they don't like LLM-authored text because they only recognize bad LLM-authored text as LLM-authored.

Blind trials have actually shown that readers generally prefer LLM authored books to human-authored ones on the same subject.

Remember: AMD64 is as old now as the 286 was when AMD64 came out!

Remember: 1998 is as old now as 1970 was in 1998.

I wonder if this is a Microsoft Excel situation where everyone

1. Hates the status quo

2. Only uses a handful of the 10,000 features the status quo has

3. Uses a different handful than everyone else

Because that model kept Excel as the center of buisnesses around the world for 30 years and counting