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Google likely knew of this issue, but you need to understand that DEI-related missteps are judged a lot more harshly by the society than other types of errors. So, for Google this was likely “choosing the lesser evil” type of scenario. Anticipating edge cases for LLM behavior is very difficult, but it’s hard to imagine that no-one at Google tested vikings and 1940s Germans before the release.

Talking about what I did/what I’m planning to do on a regular cadence forces me to reflect on my time spent and makes me more focused. I also love hearing what others are up to because it promotes collaboration between us. The latter point is completely ignored by the author.

However, the blockers question is a waste of time. Blockers should be resolved as fast as possible, not wait until the next scheduled meeting.

How Quora died 2 years ago

Quora merging “all related” answers onto the same page is one of the most annoying things about it. I switch it to “Answers” 100% of the time.

When I first started to program professionally, I was fascinated with the blameless postmortem culture that my ex-employer had. I thought (and still do) it is incredibly conducive to systemic improvement. I’m happy it is legally codified in the aviation industry.

I’m curious what the largest bottleneck in robotics AI is - algorithms, training data, hardware, something else?

From a practical point of view, it seems like there would be vastly less training data available because almost all of it needs to be created by hand, as opposed to chatbots that can use already existing troves of internet text.

But, coming back to my first decade at Google, it was incredible to see employees valued above everything else. Perhaps this is a privilege only possible in a culture of infinite abundance. Or maybe not? Maybe it's possible in a limited-resource culture too, but only if the company is small.

Every team that I’ve been on where I felt this way was when that company was rapidly growing and successful. I can’t say the reverse is necessarily true, but can success be the key ingredient that enables this, not the company size?

This is curious but saying that “single typo cost the USPS 500 million dollars” is misleading since they got it all back in the end.

My anecdotal experience as a part-time web dev instructor was not great - I recently quit after just 6 months. A small handful of students were curious and driven, but I have the impression that most students were not very driven. Could be an artefact of my program being part-time, not sure if it’s different in the full-time one (the part-time program enrolment was paused shortly after I joined btw). The main reason I quit was because school provided very little support for instructors in the sense of growth of our skills. I still think the idea is great, but I’m less confident in Lambda School as a company now.

The Europa Clipper will not orbit Europa, but instead orbit Jupiter and conduct 44 flybys of Europa at altitudes from 25 to 2,700 km (16 to 1,678 mi) each during its 3.5-year mission.[…] The Europa Clipper could conceivably flyby at low altitude through the plumes of water vapor erupting from the moon's ice crust, thus sampling its subsurface ocean without having to land on the surface and drill through the ice.

Excitingly, this seems to be a real opportunity for the Europa Clipper mission.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper

I have bought a few things by clicking on Instagram ads and enjoyed it. I choose to allow all apps to track me because I really dislike irrelevant ads. Ads will get smarter in the future, and I think this can be a good thing for the consumer. I’d really like to understand what the issue everyone on HN seems to have with this is - to me, this seems more of a personal preference (being privacy-conscious), rather than some sort of a fundamental issue that is bad for users (it’s not).

HSA has nothing to do with the quality of the insurance plan btw. HSAs are only available in conjunction with HDHP (High Deductible Health Plan). Typically, HDHPs are Bronze level plans that don’t provide a good coverage (which is why HSAs are allowed to supplement such plans).