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This also seems like a bad faith comparison. My team is hiring several senior SREs and we received ~8000 applications for all of the postings combined. Of course the signal/noise is low when you have that many applications to filter through. The takeaway isn’t “the US doesn’t have enough qualified candidates”, it’s “we need a better way to sift through these candidates to find the right ones”
As a student, _especially_ in the weedout classes where your performance in those classes decided if you could get into that major (I went to a school where you applied to majors 1-2 years after starting) it was incredibly frustrating to see other students cheating. When applying to a major that was well past capacity and very competitive to get into, it very much felt like a 0-sum scenario where cheating students were screwing the rest of us over. How awful would it have been to be declined from your major and have your career path severely impacted because so many students were cheating with 0 consequences
It was even worse when professors were notified but couldn't do anything about it (for example, a student next to me in an exam kept pulling out his phone but hiding it when the professor was nearby. I even notified her during the exam but she wasn't able to catch him so as far as I know, it never went anywhere.)
Similarly, I was a grader for a 300 level math class where about 50% of the class had blatantly cheated on an assignement (the solution manual on chegg had mixed up the questions so anyone who actually read the problem would've caught it because it was the wrong problem). I notified the professor and he said he would mention it in class but no other consequences occurred - they didn't even get 0s on the assignment!
All of your thought processes were very reasonable and I thought the best slide was comparing exam scores by people using LLMs on assignments vs people not using LLMs on assignments. I truly think that will convince people who otherwise might be borderline failing and desperate to pass that using an LLM is not in their own best interest.
I'd be curious to see (both as myself, and I think it'd be very convincing as a student in your class) the overall class grades for people using LLMs vs not. I could see someone reasoning "ok well if I get 100% on the assignment and scrape by on the exams, that still gives me a better grade than doing badly on the assignments (without an LLM) and doing slightly better on the exam"
Edit: I always thought for some reason that cheater would get their karma in their own way but in the real world, there are no consequences. I'm plagued by ads for ai-assisted ways to cheat on interviews every time I login to Blind. It actively is making things worse for the rest of us
Bumble as a whole went downhill before this - I'm not sure why. I think (at least with hetero matching), men swiped right on everyone to try to turn it into a numbers game (since they otherwise couldn't reach out to anyone themselves) then women would get overwhelmed with the number of matches and the ticking time-window and then would send out generic 1-liners just to get the conversation started and remove countdown timer. I think the time-window was too short - you could swipe on ~10 people, decide that was enough and put the phone down for a few hours, and then later get flooded with notifications when those people in turn swiped on you and then that was when the count-down window started regardless of if you had the time to open up the app and start a conversation with 10 people. I usually gave up because I'd run out of time to message people and the matches would expire. I think extending the window is a good move but making it so anyone can message first basically takes away the point of bumble and what made it different from Tinder. This feels like a deathblow to Bumble.
But I also think Tesla has singlehandedly wrecked the public perception of self-driving cars with their recklessness and disregard for human life, and faking statistics to try to legalize their self-driving mode: https://www.reuters.com/world/tesla-presented-misleading-ful...
Separately, I'd be pissed if my lawmaker tried to make this argument:
> New York state Sen. Luis Sepulveda (D–Bronx) wants a law that says motor vehicles for hire "shall not be…operated by an automated driving system without a human driver…seated behind the steering wheel and engaged in the task of driving."
> He says the state must protect immigrant taxi and Uber drivers who live in his district.
> “Wether [sic] we acknowledge it or not, this impacts us all personally,” another worker wrote on Monday. “I’ve already had multiple friends reach out and ask what the hell did we post.” This message received nearly two dozen “+1” emoji reactions.
> “Yeah it turns out that short-form summaries of the book’s long-form ideas are easy to misrepresent. It’s like we taped a ‘kick me’ sign on our own backs,” a third worker wrote. “I hope no one who decided to put this out is surprised that we are, in fact, getting kicked.”
entirely possible they're phrasing their concerns on the corporate slack to be 'pro-company' so they don't worry about getting fired for their views but it doesn't actually sound like they're wondering anything, they're just bothered that it's being brought to light.
Not sure why you would say that, I know he’s branded himself as a tech guy but beyond that nothing about the EFF seems to match his values.
The EFF tried to sue him last year too: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments...
the (low) possibility of mad cow always lurks in my mind when discussing things like this. I have a deep fear of prions.
The much more common scenario is the use of growth hormones in cows - to the point that pro athletes traveling/competing in Central and South America are instructed to avoid beef altogether as they later test positive in their drug tests for anabolic steroids.
I personally opt for meat over vegetarian options when given the choice to make sure I get sufficient protein (I do track and I struggle to get enough when eating vegetarian) but I still would vastly prefer more meat alternatives. I'm always very impressed by the Beyond options and I'm glad it's very slowly becoming more mainstream. I remember the first time I'd had an Impossible Burger was in San francisco about 10 years ago - a group of friends and I were talking about this "crazy meatless burger that still feels/tastes like meat" and we searched out a restaurant that offered it. The fact that national fast food chains are offering it now is indicative of the progress being made in society and normalizing the meatless alternatives.
> The woman told police she was “eating yogurt” before she turned onto the road and that she was late for an appointment. She said she handed her phone to her son and asked him to make a call “but could not remember if she had held it so face recognition could … open the phone,” according to the probable cause statement.
> The police investigation found that she was traveling 50 mph in a 40 mph zone when she hit the boys. She told police she didn’t realize she had hit anything until she saw the boys in her rearview mirror.
The Waymo report is being generous in comparing to a fully-attentive driver. I'm a bit annoyed at the headline choice here (from OP and the original journalist) as it is fully burying the lede.
> we strongly recommend that employees without a valid H-1B visa stamp avoid international travel for now,” the Fragomen memo reportedly said.
This isn’t really a change from previous years (this is different from September when companies were having their employees emergency-fly back to the US as they didn’t know if even valid H-1B visa holders would be let back in).