<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@antirez" class="u-url mention">@<span>antirez</span></a></span> are you on lobste.rs, by the way? It&#39;s smaller, but I always found it more interesting.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@tealeg" class="u-url mention">@<span>tealeg</span></a></span> The thing is, I can&#39;t come up with a principled reason why there *can&#39;t* PoUW. I just think about the amount of nearly-useless computation we already run (continuous integration, for instance). Surely these can be matched up somehow, if users are willing to accept some degree of lag…</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/@gtucker5" class="u-url mention">@<span>gtucker5</span></a></span> Not a useful thing yet across 3 social media!</p>

<p>It&#39;s clear at this point that we&#39;re all running a prose version of Benford&#39;s Law in our head, checking for ChatGPT-generated text.</p>

<p>For many years people said that Hacker News was ruined, full of noobs for the most part, and I kept saying: it&#39;s not that bad! Not like the first years, but it&#39;s still a cool place. Well now, in 2024: OK YOU WERE RIGHT, HAPPY NOW?</p>

<p>Q: how do you notice that Element got updated<br />A: more UI breakage</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina" class="u-url mention">@<span>grimalkina</span></a></span> do you think that a ready-to-use course on applied statistics / research methods for undergraduate computer science students would help? or do you feel it&#39;s unlikely to be adopted / unlikely to have impact / would be mis-delivered (&quot;the blind leading the blind&quot;) / take too long to pay off?</p>

<p>I think we can&#39;t just fight by being like, &quot;numbers are bad! Measurement is scary!&quot; I think we can fight by saying we too are measurement experts. Numbers are highly critiquable. The representation of human ability is not always a quantification problem, but we ALSO DESERVE to be in that room when things are being quantified. That has been a long-standing mission in my life and a reason that I believe statistical and evidence literacy need to be in our pockets, not something we fear</p>

<p>I don&#39;t have all the answers right now, but I know that there is a vacuum, and toxic decisions about human beings are waiting to rush in to fill a vacuum in a moment when human beings are being treated as disposable. This is why I believe that a collective, social, and shared model for problem-solving and software innovation is a piece of the cure and the medicine and the hope.</p>