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But OpenAI is not serving different responses to customers of different races. Anti-discrimination laws are about not discriminating against actual people.

Good point. I feel people who use the phrase "virtue signal" are usually signaling something themselves. "Well, I think all XYZ people are bums, and I bet everyone secretly agrees with me and just doesn't have the guts to say it!"

I've never heard anyone decry "vice signalling" and surely humans do that at least as much.

Which lawsuit are you referring to? I'm pretty sure GP is referring to the US Copyright Office guidance on copyrighting AI output in the US:

https://copyright.gov/ai/

Well, "Florida man" is an archetype in American culture for a reason (although some people say that reason is Florida's sunshine reporting laws).

I'd also argue a place where the state surgeon general posts anti-vax memes and the governor has made his national bones by gutting educational programs and rights isn't "well-run" by most definitions.

Would love to hear more about what you meant by "well-run."

They're not independent. (At least the last time I played,) they pull prizes out of the pool when you win them. So if there is 1 Peach in a 100-prize pipe, at most you have to buy 100.

It took me a few attempts, but I have gotten this to work fairly well. I started with explaining my ideal app like this:

We're going to design a (language) application that performs the following tasks, delineated by semi-colons:

Then I listed about a dozen high-level user stories, separated by semi-colons, and ended the list with a period. Then I clarified my instructions like this:

We will design each step together, where you ask me for any specifications needed to complete the step and I respond with those specfications. When you feel we have completed designing a step, ask me if I have any questions before proceeding to the next step.

It started with a high-level recap of my user stories, asked if I was ready to proceed, and then began to describe the first step. Over about two hours of back-and-forth, I ended up with a 20-page document of high-level architecture interspersed with code samples, db schema samples, and answers to questions that popped up during the "discussion." And I got about halfway to a working prototype during those two hours.

BLEW me away how well it worked.

Floods, fires, tornadoes, and hurricanes only produce grave threats to the individual towns, cities, and maybe some multi-county regions that they cross. For individual incidents, we're relatively prepared beforehand and we know how to respond afterward.

There's no comparison to having nearly everything in multiple states obliterated to the point that rescue takes weeks or months to arrive. We're not equipped to instantly support millions of refugees in the US. Moving hundreds of thousands of people for Katrina was probably at the upper limit of what we can effectively do (for various definitions of "effectively"). A killer quake out west could have 10 million refugees.

Your power is making it all the way to adulthood, literate, apparently aware of the external world and at least some of its history, without ever noticing that you've been "[seeing] other races or genders described in that manner when a individual member of a group acts in a particular way" for your entire life.

I'll bite!

>You can get an apartment for $500. Health Insurance is $30, utilities $200

Right off the bat, you're not "getting an apartment for $500." MAYBE you can find someone trustworthy who can rent you a bedroom for $500/month in some cities but:

As of 2020, monthly rent averaged $1,164 nationwide; median rent is $1,104.

-- https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/renting-statistics

Only 7% of US counties have 1-bedroom apartments affordable on the prevailing minimum wage.

-- https://reports.nlihc.org/oor

Also, you need first month's rent ($500), security deposit ($500-$1000), utility deposit ($50 - $500), and sometimes last month's rent ($500).

So now we're talking a few grand. Better hope you spent the past three months working that guaranteed-40-hours/week minimum wage job without spending a single penny of your wages!

I also hope that your job is very close to your new apartment because you're going to need to spend a LOT of time chasing all the benefits that you seem to think are easily handed out and you don't have money for transit. Nope, you can't afford to take a whole day off work to wait in line for a free transit pass -- after all, you're going to spend $700 of this month's $900 income on housing and utilities!

At least make up numbers from this century if you're going to pull this Horatio Alger stuff :-)

Fascinating to watch in real-time as somebody tries to convince us that Eastern European nations voluntarily joining NATO over 20 years was "aggression" and poor little Putin had no choice but to rain missiles and shells down on Ukrainian schools and hospitals.

Good luck "debunking" your "myth," comrade!

Respectfully disagree -- these examples are mostly how the system is supposed to work to protect the rights of the individual.

OJ was found not guilty by a jury of his peers who felt there was reasonable doubt to his guilt. Sure, to the vast majority of us, he obviously did it and skated, but I'd guess there are 100 or 1000 non-publicized cases of an innocent person getting railroaded for every OJ.

Clinton paid a massive political price for his weasel language and related evasions, and some people think that price included Gore's loss of the Presidency in 2000.

Capone was brought down for unpaid taxes, not parking tickets, and that was as a result of a federal task force brought about following years of incredible gangland violence in Chicago.

I wouldn't call these bugs.

In the US, the 10th percentile cops earn about 40K a year. Median local cop salary in the US is 65K. And that's the SALARY.

And let me know if ANY cops in the US have ever complained about overtime -- guaranteed overtime and overtime pay rate are often specified in police union contracts and there are tons of articles every year about cops making $100K+ overtime on top of base.

Source:

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/police-and-detect...

Products are sold with a warranty. If you want guaranteed support for X years beyond the warranty, pay for an extended warranty.

If the product in question doesn't have an available extended warranty, then pick another product.

Telling every hardware maker "you have to support every device you make forever" is ludicrous.

I have some 15-year-old netbooks in storage that still power on, should eeePC have to "support" them now? Should they have to maintain a repair depot with replacement parts forever? Should they have to just release their own version of Linux forever to support each model of hardware?

From the article:

Another opinion holds that Thursday was chosen as a poke in the eye to Orthodox believers, since their fasting days are traditionally Wednesday and Friday (official doctrine did all it could to encourage atheism).

What would be the ideal "HN-friendly" way to point out that the parent does have serious misunderstandings of the topic at hand?

I'm struggling to parse that first sentence in a way that someone would be offended by.

1) You mentioned "ageism" so I assumed you were toward the older end of the typical range, but then you said you're in your early 20s? Yeah, no offense but you're basically a kid with no portfolio and no proven job history who dropped out of college, so you're probably not going to find a job that offers health/dental. And that's not "ageism" -- lots of the places you mentioned hire people in their late teens or early 20s -- that's just your inexperience.

2) Don't talk about how you spotted some system deficiency three levels above you and reported it. That's just going to creep people out. And that is NOT the sort of thing that makes a manager think you're Good Will Hunting and say "What's that genius doing in the call center cubicles? Get him an office and insurance right away!" Instead they are 100x more likely to say "Yes, drone, we're all well aware of that issue, get back on the phones."

3) You're cold-contacting SVPs at Dell? Spoofing contact whitelists to get through their phone systems? Yeah, this isn't "War Games," so you're about 1000x more likely to anger somebody than you are to impress them with your skillz. There are the "normal" channels of getting a job (the HR application route) and the "usual" channels (having a friend at the company get you hired)... but anything else (walking into an SVP's suite) is really, really unlikely to help.

I mean this well -- twenty years ago, I was a college freshman dropout with no portfolio, no connections, and a rural drawl -- so you CAN succeed. But I had some rough years and I had to put in my dues as an entry-level help desk grunt before rising up as a sysadmin.

* Get some sort of stable job and don't quit it until a year has gone by AND you have a signed offer letter in hand for a provably better job.

* Don't give up on Medicaid! In most states and most scenarios, you're MUCH more likely to get decent subsidized ACA healthcare than you are to find a job that gives you insurance within 90 days, let alone 30 days. But you gotta do the research and the legwork.

The Christian Church has been getting steadily less monolithic for the past 1700 years or so.

Some of the topics being discussed in our (US) church in the past couple of years:

* the devastating personal and economic toll of the pandemic and how we can help individually and in aggregate

* race relations in the US and the history of injustices caused by racism, including police brutality, and how we can respond in our daily lives

* LGBTQ-related topics, including the ability of people of different sexual identities to participate fully at all levels of the church hierarchy

* the environmental impact of our actions at the personal level all the way up to the institutional level as it pertains to human-caused climate change

You can find many churches in the US with people that believe in every possible belief related to all of these issues.

No, it's not just potlucks and singles nights :-)

Oh, so you do have the expertise to judge, but that other poster doesn't. Gotcha.

Can you please point me to the thread where you justify this (otherwise unbearably arrogant) response with your credentials?

(Seriously, how did this comment not get yanked as an obvious ad hom troll?)

Thanks for the info! Do you know what the weird polyhedrons are over Alaska and New Zealand?

This is a different model of expiration. This isn't "two-year shelf life can be extended to five years w/ stable temperature and humidity and only a 10% loss of efficacy."

This is "once this vaccine is pulled out of the super-cold freezer, it starts breaking down, and you have X hours before it's worthless at best."

Worse than "worthless" is the idea that people might get a useless expired vaccine anyway, think they're protected, and then be a vector for future transmission.

Come around to what?

When polls show nearly half of Republicans support the Capitol Insurgents, there are LOTS of things that Republicans need to come around to.

Come "back" around to the belief that the court is the final arbiter of disputes in our country, NOT whoever sends the most maniacs in a frenzied mob.

Come around to the belief that yes, they did in fact lose the 2020 presidential election fairly, as stated by every state and county election official, including the GOP's.

Come around to the belief that the US "peaceful transition of power" during presidential elections was in fact a good thing, not a centuries-old tradition to be thrown away in a futile attempt to install a game show host as dictator-for-life.

Source: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/07/nearly-h...

Not OP but I've seen them more often than not between Chicago and California over the past decade or so, particularly in Nevada and Nebraska.

An MRAP is not going to be any better at delivering supplies than a few 4x4 trucks. They're not built for cargo and they're very heavy.

And what events in the US are at high risk of attack by IEDs and mines?

And "Appalachia is still a poor region" is not a valid criticism of unions.

Republicans aren't a "race" and political preference isn't a "protected class" in the US (with a couple minor exceptions).

On average, you are technically correct. But the US also has the greatest disparity in funding, which isn't visible on your link but is absolute basic conventional wisdom for any discussion of US education.

Fifteen of the fifty states had per-pupil funding less than the OECD average. Our median-funded state is around Canada, around 13th in the world. If Utah were a country, it would rank in the 30s, somewhere around the Slovak Republic.

https://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educ...

Counter-point: ATVs and dirtbikes are noisy and tear up terrain and don't belong in "nature" aka the private property of people that don't want to hear them or see their tracks.

You are correct. Field corn is (usually) harvested by a giant combine harvester and shucked/processed automatically in the machine, with the kernels dumped into a waiting truck parked alongside. Then it's stored in grain elevators for days, weeks, or months until it's processed for fuel or feed.

Sweet corn is (usually) picked by hand on a much smaller scale, left in its natural leafy husk, and transported for retail sale within a week or two.

It's a whole different ball game. I'm sure we COULD take big portions of our feed/fuel field corn and grind it into human-ready cornmeal for mush and cornbread, but it wouldn't be a walk in the park :-/

1) Liquor stores are kept open because a (surprisingly high) percentage of the population are severe alcoholics and sudden withdrawal can kill them.

2) No public health professional has time to list and quantify all of the routine processes of every profession to create a complex matrix of risk. And 99% of the public would ignore that matrix if it was created and published. The simpler and more effective public health communication is "stay home."

3) Your hypothetical pair of gardeners might not see their clients that day, but they still get up, get breakfast, get supplies at the store, fuel up their truck and equipment at the gas station, drop off a check at the bank after work, etc., and they can interact with other people at each of those stops.

4) Articles about young people that die from the virus are not trying to hide "simple math that the risk is low." They are trying to convince young people that the risk is non-zero, to prevent them from spreading the virus while pre- or asymptomatic.

5) "Children dying from a virus" and "children going hungry because they can't get two free meals a day" are BOTH public policy issues. Dooming an extra hundred? thousand? ten thousand? people to severe illness and death to avoid having to deliver emergency rations and meals to a million people is a false dilemma. In my medium-sized US city, schools and other community agencies have been distributing meals and rations for seven weeks now and we have zero cases of death by starvation.

What numbers are you assuming for the economic collapse you've predicted? What rational basis is there for believing that the cure is literally worse than the disease? Can you debate with facts instead of "avoid bad things" and emotion?

You won't get an answer because they realize that putting an actual dollar amount on the lives of those who will die isn't quite acceptable yet, even on a libertarian paradise site like HN.