Maybe it’s both. I would guess that men’s feet would get tipped more than no feet, but less than women’s feet.

When I had to hire people, I was much more interested in seeing a portfolio than a degree.

It depends on what the job is though. I definitely want my doctor to have a degree

Not in a troy ounce though

Why?

There are huge public datasets that are often used for pretraining. Common Crawl and C4 are probably the most prominent, but there are others.

There are also big public datasets available for fine-running and instruction tuning.

The open weight models are getting pretty powerful, thanks to some Chinese labs.

iPhones save old notifications in a database? Why?

Do you really think that people who have the skills to repair the water treatment plant are going to just deal with sewage backing up into their home because they don’t want to do the work?

In their own city’s infrastructure? No, probably not. But that doesn’t quite clear things up, so I’ll throw out some numbers as an example:

• Let’s say, on average, ~100 pumps need repair/maintenance at any given time.
• Only 50 people have the skills to fix those industrial pumps^[1].

Do an average of 50 cities have sewage backing up at any given time? How do you fill that gap?

Also, do you have an example of a society that functions like this today? Maybe I’m just stuck thinking inside a box because the society I’m most familiar with is not like that. If so, an example might be helpful.

Maybe many would, but also, many would not.

In a society in which everyone can choose whatever career they want, all for the same “pay”/outcome/whatever it’s called in a moneyless society, I would bet that most people would choose not to do these things.

When the demand for such tasks outweighs the number of people who are both willing and skilled to do those jobs, what can be done to meet the demand?

Btw, I’m not asking rhetorically - I’m genuinely curious. If there isn’t enough people to serve such an important job for society, what can be done?

Some people have to dress up in a special suit and swim through raw sewage to repair a big pump - and they have to do it blindly because the sewage is opaque.

Some people have an even dirtier job: They have to clean off that guy’s shitty suit before he can take it off. They might have to do it multiple times if he needs to come out to take another look at schematics.

They do it because it pays very well. It pays very well because nobody wants to do it.

It depends on the person. I’ve known people who are much more motivated by money. Some of them ended up in prison, some are doing quite well, and some are still trying.

Honestly, I sometimes wish I were more money-motivated. I’m very lucky that my passion happens to earn a good salary (for now), but I gave up my business for it.

Does that matter to them? I assumed not, but I don’t really know what they think about rocket launches, so maybe I shouldn’t assume

Thanks

Three consecutive dog photos in my Lemmy feed! I think is is the most positivity I’ve ever seen on Lemmy. Thank you for this one 🙂

Would you mind elaborating a little more? I live under a rock but this seems interesting

I would guess they’d explain it the same way they explain other rocket launches.

I assume they’re aware that rockets get launched on a regular basis

Should NASA be shut down until Earth is cured of all diseases?

Some people seem to think about political issues every day. It seems unhealthy and unhappy.

I think this is one of the reasons why people from English-speaking countries are less motivated to learn other languages; English is almost everywhere, to varying degrees.

It’s sort of a gift and a curse. I enjoy learning languages, but there’s no practical need for me to, so I’m bad at it 🙈

Yep. I imagine Spanish is much more useful in Texas than in Alaska