Survey from a company that's in the business of AI coding and thus has a monetary interest in promoting the technology. No details on who conducted the survey (the company itself?) or how the 609 respondents were selected. If limited to the company's own customers, massive selection bias. The results may or may not reflect reality, but this "report" is just marketing bullshit.
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sathomasga commented on Why Moderna Merged Its Tech and HR Departments wsj.com/articles/why-mode... · Posted by u/andy99
Human Resources should really be named Employer Resources as it exists to protect the company from liability for their employees.
I dunno, it kind of accurately reflects the view that in capitalist firms employees are resources, e.g. to be exploited.
I'd vote for the old terminology: Personnel Department.
Just assign an eng manager to the AI to handle that and be responsible, is the thinking. It's juvenile.
I think Cory Doctorow described said eng manager as a "human crumple zone" that serves to absorb the blame for failures.
Apple Keynote.
sathomasga commented on Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos theverge.com/2024/5/20/24... · Posted by u/busymom0
> There was open contempt for companies that extract value from your personal information.
Maybe back in the day. However, for the last few years, Apple is in the business of personalized ads in App Store, Apple News, and Stocks etc. So they do "extract value from your personal information" just like other companies such as Facebook, Google etc.
If the ads that Apple shows me in the App Store, Apple News, etc. are supposed to be personalized, then Apple is really, _really,_ *really* bad at personalization. They're clearly not extracting any meaningul private information (or public information, for that matter) about me at the moment.
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It doesn’t. After a response, you can ask it for its sources, but it will just make stuff up.
Out of curiosity I asked it a microbiology question. It gave a reasonable but rather anodyne response. When I asked for the sources, it provided two plausibly sounding papers, with titles, authors, etc. neither of which actually exists.
sathomasga commented on Twitter has blocked 3rd party apps tapbots.com/support/tweet... · Posted by u/nomdep
That's not the correct title. This is just speculation. It could be an explicit block or it could be a failure that affects API access for features used by 3rd party clients.
There's a good chance for either option at this point really...
Well, it’s been more than 24 hours without a peep from Twitter. Seems like a legitimate bug/failure would have at least been acknowledged by now.
> I've been on HN for a loooong time.
And you’re asking random users for investment advice?
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