I think eventually courts will decide that whatever a chatbot or employee says while working for the company is binding on the company, as long as there was no malicious intent on either the part of the employee or the customer.
Yep. Intent matters.
Readit Newsm_0x commented on Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-... · Posted by u/brrrrrd
m_0x commented on Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-... · Posted by u/brrrrrd
If I am trying to interact with a company and they direct me to their chatbot, I expect that chatbot to provide me with accurate answers 100% of the time (or to say it can't help me in the event that I ask a question that it's not meant to solve, and connect me to a representative who can).
If I have to double-triple check elsewhere to make sure that the chatbot is correct, or if anything the chatbot tells me is non-binding, then what's the point of using the chat bot in the first place? If you can't trust it 99% of the time, or if the company says "use this, but nothing it says should be taken as fact", then why would i waste my time?
If a company is going to provide a tool, they should take responsibility for that tool.
> If you can't trust it 99% of the time
A chatbot should be either 100% or 0%. Companies should not replace humans with faulty technology.
America already feels like a corporation not a country to a large part of the working class. Further undermining the safeguards for labor will have a huge impact on the labor movement. The pendulum will swing mighty hard the other direction in response. This is a dumb move by corporate America.
> America already feels like a corporation not a country
There is a concerning percentage of US citizens that actively wants this.
"He will run America like one of his business"
These services should be forbidden from using the phrase "Buy it now" if they do not mean it. The phrase should be "License it now" or "Get a license" so people know what they are getting into.
Words have power.
m_0x commented on A distributed systems reading list ferd.ca/a-distributed-sys... · Posted by u/davidw
When people learn about distributed systems outside of work, how do they actually get hands on experience with it (assuming they don't go spinning up a bunch of machines on aws/gcp/azure/etc)? I find it easiest to learn by doing, writing simple proof of concepts but that seems a bit harder to do in this area than others? What is the hello world/mnist of messing around with distributed systems?
I don't think it's a trivial thing to do outside of work. At most you can play with kubernetes and cloud but in an interview the lack of experience will come out because I think some stuff can only be learned at work. Especially scalability.
m_0x commented on Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's traderjoesprices.com... · Posted by u/cmoog
Interesting!
I’ve always held on to my grocery receipts for the last 8 years. I took pictures of them but when I moved a box got water damaged so now I only have like the last 3ish years.
Is there any open source software that I can use to transfer these receipts into a useful csv?
I have an idea for a few interesting data visualizations as I’d often buy the same things every week. Grocery bill went from like $70 to $150 with not much changes from what I can tell.
Would be cool to put it out in the public.
I have attempted this and the biggest issue is that sometimes the receipts use codes hard to understand. And the codes will change from store to store.
If you're lucky, you won't need to go to a grocery store and determine what a code means, you will only need to map the code to an actual item you bought.
m_0x commented on Review: Framework's Laptop 16 is unique, laudable and flawed arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
I have a Framework and have probably procured 10-15 total for my company & a few clients. It's great that you can swap out any part of the laptop. That said, I broke my input cover [0] and tried to order a new one, but the listed part 404'ed. When I reached out to support they said there were none in stock and they didn't know when they'd be back in stock. So my Framework anecdote was that I found myself worse off than if I had a non-modular computer. When I checked 1.5 months later, the part was in stock.
> When I checked 1.5 months later, the part was in stock.
So, are you good now? Or was the part in stock too late for you and moved on to another laptop?
It's incredible that there are actually people in this thread arguing in favor of Apple. You don't need to defend the trillion dollar company. They are not your friend, they do not care about you, your work or your life. All they do is steal 30% from society that could be used for more productive purposes than make a few people who already have everything even richer.
> All they do is steal 30% from society that could be used for more productive purposes than make a few people who already have everything even richer.
Steal? What you want the App store to be free and become the Android Play Store which is utter garbage and hostile against small and mid developers?
This is like getting kicked out of McDonalds for ordering a small order of french fries and instead eating 400 ketchup packets.
Things are free when people don't abuse it. Just be normal. Jesus.
What if McDonalds is offering unlimited fries with any hamburger?
Would they be reasonable to kick you after eating 5 pounds?
I mean 237 TB of data is an excessive amount of data. The 'victim' here clearly knows they are taking advantage of a situation. Google is in the wrong on their response but, come on, let's be reasonable human beings and stop saying 'victim blaming'.
237TB of unlimited data is a drop in the bucket.