Open source projects should run office hours

Post by victor9000 » Sat, Mar 06, 2021, 1:41 AM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #261

victor9000 wrote: post #259

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Interesting! Are you able to share what you came up with? It seems like at minimum you could verify that the sentiment analysis for your generated text matches that of the input prompt. I've been working on getting GPT2 to write poetry and I've made a fair amount of progress by fine-tuning on a poetic corpus. Then during generation I constrain tokens that would break the style of the previously generated text. It has…

I might be able to, but I'll have to ask. Want to DM me on twitter, so that I can share it with you (if permission is given) without broadcasting it to the world? https://twitter.com/theshawwn

Post by handoflixue » Sat, Mar 06, 2021, 4:52 AM UTC

Qwertious wrote: post #251

C4stor wrote: post #191

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What happened to the HN rule of "interpret everything with the most positive interpretation possible", when this is the top voted comment ? It seems pretty obvious that the author doesn't intend to coerce anyone into doing anything.

>What happened to the HN rule of "interpret everything with the most positive interpretation possible", when this is the top voted comment ? What makes you think this comment is doing anything except providing positive feedback? >It seems pretty obvious that the author doesn't intend to coerce anyone into doing anything. Subtext is weird and dangerous. Using more accurate phrasing costs nothing and potentially averts…

Post by DrOctagon » Sat, Mar 06, 2021, 9:25 AM UTC

ineedasername wrote: post #78

I hate articles like this. Or maybe it's just the headlines but it follows a set formula: 1)Person X finds a way of doing something that works for them . 2)Person X writes an article either saying outright, or implying, that this is how it should be done for everyone About the only universal statement I've every found useful is the one that says "Universal statements should always be treated with skepticism".

Post by arp242 » Sat, Mar 06, 2021, 11:04 AM UTC

simonw wrote: post #186

aconsult1 wrote: post #184

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I think the problem here is that a lot of people (myself included) will understand the term "office hours" as being the typical time window that people work in the office - i.e. 8am to 5pm. This might be exacerbated with non-native english speakers which you'll see a lot around here. The new title you suggested doesn't fix anything (at least for me it doesn't). Maybe consider using more commonly known terms to refer…

I considered that point of confusion too, but I decided I'm OK with people who are unfamiliar with the term "office hours" needing to click through and read the article. I picked "consider running office hours" because hopefully the word "running" there is slightly less likely to imply "consider only working 9-5pm". I've added a note about the better German term "Sprechstunde" to both the article and my Calendly desc…

Post by orestarod » Sat, Mar 06, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

C4stor wrote: post #191

matkoniecz wrote: post #90

I have deep aversion to "Open source projects should run office hours" title. Maybe "Office hours may be a good idea for open source projects"? This would not suggest obligation. In general, fact that someone created or maintains or supports open source projects should not be considered to create any obligations beyond lack of malice and abuse. I am not obligated to support any bugs, create any features and it is per…

What happened to the HN rule of "interpret everything with the most positive interpretation possible", when this is the top voted comment ? It seems pretty obvious that the author doesn't intend to coerce anyone into doing anything.