skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say California comes quite close. People in the US pay taxes too. And depending on which state you are in it can actually add up to a lot.

The advantage of the Nordic system is that it is brutally simple. You pay your taxes and there isn't a whole lot of room to change anything about that.

I lived in Sweden and Finland for a while. It's nice. Everything is taken care off. There is no drama around anything. You get sick you go the doctor. You get old, you are taken care off. Etc. When I moved from Finland to Germany as part of an international transfer in the same company, the company chose to raise my salary to compensate me for the raised tax burden ... in Germany.

Reason: the Finnish tax system is actually pretty alright. After you pay your insurances and taxes, which is pretty much just kept from your salary, that's pretty much it. The VAT is high as well. But there's very little else to take care off beyond things like your rent.

The German tax system on the other hand is death by a thousand cuts. A little tax here, a little insurance there, etc. None of it optional. Once you add it all up, it's quite a lot. So they compensated me. Of course cost of living is a lot lower so it was a quite nice raise for me. California is more like Germany than like Finland. But once you add it all up, you are paying a lot to a lot of different things.
Adobe trained their own model only on public domain images and on images that they own. Do you think that they should not be allowed to do that?
I agree with you, and some mods are actually Reddit employees. I have had an account permanently suspended by a Reddit employee mod, because he could.

It's not true that all mods are volunteers.
The correct term is "industrial action". Its a kind of digital strike (locking out public users) but it's not a strike in terms of labour stoppage. Hence the air quotes.
How do you know if content is AI generated?

If mods could decree a piece of content as AI generated (and delete it) willy nilly, then that would be far worse IMO.
Except for the most part, Reddit mods aren't employees; they're not even volunteers. They're users and customers of the site. They just happen to be users with access to more features than most.
You can tell it in some cases, especially those that contain typical LLM hallucinations. Many LLM generated answers are either plain wrong, or have made up function or argument names.
Any benchmarking sites started comparing cards by "performance per Watt" yet? Asking as a German...
Why Europe will remain the AI third world
Honestly stack overflow is just a for profit Wikipedia. It’s content should be scraped and an open source version replace it
No cliffs at my beach.
I've mentioned this before on here, but mathematics papers don't use the usual rules for author ordering. By convention, more or less the entire field has agreed that authors shall be listed alphabetically. So, Max Zorn probably got listed last on every single multi-author paper he published, while Odd Aalen[0] has probably been listed first on every paper he's published.

To prove that I'm not just making this up out of my ass, here[1] is a statement from the American Mathematical Society that talks about it. I'll quote the meat of it here:

> In most areas of mathematics, joint research is a sharing of ideas and skills
that cannot be attributed to the individuals separately. The roles of
researchers are seldom differentiated (in the way they are in laboratory
sciences, for example). Determining which person contributed which ideas is
often meaningless because the ideas grow from complex discussions among all
partners. Naming a "senior" researcher may indicate the relative status of the
participants, but its purpose is not to indicate the relative merit of the
contributions. Joint work in mathematics almost always involves a small number
of researchers contributing equally to a research project.

> For this reason, mathematicians traditionally list authors on joint papers in
alphabetical order. An analysis of journal articles with at least one U.S. based
author shows that nearly half were jointly authored. Of these, more than 75%
listed the authors in alphabetical order. In pure mathematics, nearly all joint
papers (over 90%) list authors alphabetically.

Exceptions do exist, as alluded to by the "over 90%" number mentioned in the AMS statement. But, many of those are caused by transliteration artifacts (e.g. Author1 and Author2 are in alphabetical order in the language the paper was originally published in, but the English transliterated versions of their names are not).

See this Math Overflow post for all the gory details: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/19987/math-paper-authors-...

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Aalen

[1]: http://www.ams.org/profession/leaders/CultureStatement04.pdf
If you're going to call people fascists, do you mind defining fascism for us?
Note that the difference here is much more ridiculous: there is no co dependence because reddit doesn't pay moderators anything.

Therefore management tries to excercise their power over nothing(?) in costs.
I wouldn't be surprised at all - the NYC police force demographics don't come particularly close to the city as a whole. Blacks are significantly underrepresented while Latinos are actually over-represented. Assuming the cards go mostly to people of the same race, which is likely if they go to relatives/neighbors/friends, you end up with meaningful bias.
Yup, that's what Lemmy does: https://join-lemmy.org/
> it's just the right voltage to charge lithium ion batteries

No, it's not. Lithium is nominally 3.7 volts per cell and charging voltage goes up to about 4.2 volts max, maybe 4.3. Definitely never 5V.

A 5V->4.2V buck converter isn't particularly different than a 20V->4.2V buck converter. In fact it's probably a bit easier to make a 20V->4.2V converter since you don't have to worry about parasitic losses as much.

> You do realize that this is exactly your pitch for these 20V "standardized" plugs/outlets, right? :)

Not exactly, (a) I'd use an existing connector, maybe a Lenovo 20V connector (b) USB keeps having to switch things because they weren't a charging standard to begin with, they were abused as a power plug and then had to keep evolving with that while maintaining backward compatibility and continually keeping up with Moore's law in bandwidth requirements.

A 20VDC plug would just be that -- a low-voltage socket for <100W appliances.

Anything higher, just use 120V/240V and get upto 1800W.
The table layout on the main page is more of a problem for a modern web bgrowser then it is actually for Lynx. Modern browsers will announce the table, and your position in it, which is totally irrelevant on the main page. That is definitely the wrong semantic tag for the job at hand. It should be a ordered-list, because that is what it is. However, most markup things tends to get rendered quite nicely in Lynx. The only thing I notice which I somethimes wish would work differently is the lack of the ability to know who is replying to whom...
That’s definitely not the case with GPT4
No, boycott means refusing to use a service. This is about refusing to moderate, so it's a strike. Moderators are volunteer workers.
Calls to hang the vice president of the united states are docile? People trying to hunt down specific members of congress docile? Breaking down doors docile? You're gaslighting hard here. Clearly people believed the false claims about the election and were taking action about it.

This isn't docile: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jan-6-ri...
Will the four-day workweek get employees back in office?
The majority yes, but some of them are Reddit employees and are paid.
I generally find those article to make no sense.

My mother, in the mid 90s, could just barely use a computer to type something up in Word and print it out. She was just sorta starting to grasp email by 2000. Even some kids I knew in middle and high school had trouble with the basics of navigating around a Mac and using a web browser. Go back to the late 80s when my dad brought home the first computer I got to use, and most of my schoolmates had never even seen one, let alone knew how to use one.

I absolutely agree that the locked down environments we have today are awful and counter-productive. But my nephew could scroll through YouTube Kids on a tablet when he was three years old and start the videos he wanted to watch, and go back to find something else when he was tired of it. Three years old! Now, at seven, even though he can't always read everything, he can operate fairly complex apps.

I guess it depends on how you define "technical literacy". I look at it more as "being able to successfully navigate the technology of the time", not so much "be a hacker", which seems to be what some people try to push it to be.
I stopped posting on Reddit years ago when the whole equity language nonsense popped up and it's been great. It's captured, and is such a toxic and hostile community for any non-mainstream ideas, that it was a breath of fresh air to leave that behind.
Because they were losing traffic to chatGPT. Stack Overflow has been all about numbers and revenue for some time now.
As a common example, you see someone who asks a question in the format:

“helo plz can help w cod, is broke has error”

And then the next day posts four answers in perfect English to four different topics, with that GPT “vibe”.

You can’t reliably detect generated content in a vacuum, but Stack Overflow is a very metadata-rich environment for moderators.
I would think that "4Chan Poster" would be the "family name" here. Which, of course, would come lexicographically before most real family names.
Why is anybody moderating on Stack Overflow at all?

What is the incentive?
You're thinking of a larger dog. This is a small dog (Bichon Frisé), with the temperament of a cat. Probably wouldn't survive long in the wild.
> For the vast majority if people, there are way bigger problems than covid.

So the people living paycheck-to-paycheck should just continue business as usual and their families will be the ones dying during the pandemic, because they've got way bigger problems, got it.
For the prompt "What is the 314th decimal of pi?":

Bard returns 1.
ChatGPT 3.5 returns 9.
ChatGPT 4 returns 6.
Bing returns 9.
A Google search returns context from https://decimal.info/digits-of-pi/value-of-pi-to-314-decimal... which is either 1 or 3, depending on the definition.

Seems like there's no "right" answer.
What are your objective facts? I.e. numbers that can be easily checked. If your reality is so real, you should be able to find them!

Cars provide faster commutes than transit. Always have, always will, except for very narrow exceptions.

Cars provide far more access to people, making them more likely to succeed: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00020-2

Heck, EVs even have a smaller carbon footprint than most transit! See: https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint
It’s because it’s the hardest field to bullshit. Everything is black and white and you can’t just make up fake data.

On the converse, psychology and economics seem to have the most problems in terms of reproducibility and fraud. This is because they are the easiest to falsify, and their results are interpreted according to less precise epistemology.

There’s no ‘Austrian school’ vs ‘Chicago school’ in maths (to my knowledge).

Also, the general public isn’t interested in pure maths, so there are less incentives to fake data so you can get a nice press release, or so you can publish your new book, or so that the government bureaucrat will subsidise your ‘research.’
Can’t wait it hits version 182
I'm not the ideal person to ask here. But in general the output of specific AI tools like ChatGPT produces certain patterns that are quite noticeable. And you have to keep in mind that you usually have more than a single post available in these cases. The pattern of posting content is also a signal by itself.

So if e.g. a user posts a dozen long answers within 10 minutes, and they all have characteristics of ChatGPT, that would be a pretty good signal.
> Humans are allowed to be inspired by other humans, software used by other humans is not.

Why?
Supply PA,PP,PC,PBT,PET,ABS...raw materials
Incidentalley this allows for

count func (a,b) => ...
in out (a,b) => ...
of if (a,b) => ...

Wonderful language, wonderful.
I wonder if duplicate sequences are allows - i.e. a sequence that makes you watches every possible permutation, but only exactly once.
Oh, please, get off your high horse. It's not about casually joking about child death; it's about assessing risks and making rational decisions. Kids survived for centuries without mobile phones - hell, humans survived for millennia without mobile phones.

Are there risks? Sure. But there are risks in everything. And, by the way, that phone can distract your kid while crossing the road, ending up in a much more likely dangerous situation.

Plus, the idea is not about banning phones altogether but rather regulating them, using them wisely. You know, like how we should use literally any tool ever invented? Having an appropriate usage based on age and situation is called responsible parenting, not Orwellian control.

We can either raise a generation of mindless zombies glued to screens, or we can try and foster responsible and thoughtful use of technology. I know which one I'd prefer.
> small number of third party client users

I feel like that number is not that small. Apollo for iOS (which is not only a fantastic Reddit client, but an exceptional example of a great iOS app in general) has about 1.5 million monthly active users. And that's only a single client.

As you can see in your replies and in many posts on Reddit, people using these third party clients (which are soooo much better than the first party clients) are likely to dramatically reduce their usage without it or even stop completely.
No longer trying, I suppose.
The social insurance (arbetsgivaravgift in Sweden IIRC) is paid by the employee.

Apart from that, many compare the salaries in Copenhagen and Malmö, which is obviously unfair with Copenhagen being the national capital, while Malmö was a run-down hole the last time I was there. I assume tech wages in Stockholm are more comparable.
It's a screenshot of multiple accounts posting the same thing.

This link is the content of the post:
https://i.redd.it/bot-army-in-full-effect-to-downplay-the-ch...
Equity belongs to your estate after your death, and will be a permanent obligation of the company (unless it buys back the shares). At best a pension can be partially transferred to your spouse after your death, but after the death of both you, and if you elected the option of a reduced pension to have it apply to your spouse, your spouse, the pension disappears entirely from your estate.

This makes comparing a pension to equity, or even a 401(k), problematic in respects. A pension is an annuity, and should be calculated as such.
Clearly, yes
> but still we have noticed how it is affecting and changing how she feels about the world around and herself.

Are you able to elaborate on what you noticed?

> The girl gets complaints from her parents because she reads too much books

Do you mean complements?
It makes sense from a business perspective (they have been losing traffic to chatGPT), but unfortunately it may also mean the end of Stack Overflow as we know it. The whole value of SO was to be able to connect with subject experts in a reasonably easy and quick way.

Computer generated answers compiled from existing resources may work for simple questions, but not for things that require specific knowledge and experience.
Oh shoot, thanks for explaining that! When you put it that way, it definitely looks like a threat to the business!
As an aside, what do you think will be the equivalent word to "racist/sexist/classist" for humans vs AI?

Brainist?

Artificist?

Intelligencist?

Biologist?
It’s also done that way in finance, accounting, and econ.
Startups tautological focus on product and do the bare minimum on compliance that they can get away with.
As Dr. Sowell explains,

"when they want to help black people, they want to help those black people who are doing something wrong. That is rioters, ex-convicts, they want to stop schools from disciplining black kids who misbehave in school. I don't hear them concerning themselves with the blacks who are the victims of the people who are doing wrong."

https://youtu.be/bpA3Sf6Ffu4 (6:05)
Other places I've also seen Police associations sell stickers in exchange for "donations". I honestly believe it should be illegal for civilians to donate to any organization setup to benefit police and/or their families. It's bribery by another name.
I thought his whole pitch was that AMD drivers suck and he was gonna write new ones?

Now he's giving up because AMD drivers suck?
Because the moderators provide (unpaid) labor for Reddit (or SO, to make the parallel with another post where you are asking the same question).
It's often called "necking down". The connector is higher resistance, and will indeed have more resistive loss than the wire. It's a very small length, though. The extra heat is quickly dissipated into the the nearby wire through thermal conduction, so it will be only marginally warmer than the rest of the cable.

This is a very common practice on PCBs. You can use a very wide trace where there's room, and narrow it to get around tight spots like between pins on an IC.

When I built solar race cars in college, we optimized the powertrain for resistive losses over weight. We used 00 AWG wire from the battery to the motor, knowing it would max out at 40 amps. We would then "neck it down" to 8 AWG to go into 40A rated connectors. To a casual observer it definitely appeared ridiculous and wrong.
Or https://github.com/blinksh/blink which I thought this was at first.
I used to buy international paperback editions cheaply on these online mom and pop businesses. Saved like 50-75% on most titles. Hope students are still able to do this?
Nuxeo unironically used a db table as a pub sub system between the cluster nodes for cache invalidations.
Techicallyvyhry haven't been fired, just sort-of muzzled.

The law has evolved to help balance the relationship between employer and employee. It dictates limits on employer behaviour and also limits on employee behaviour. Usually there is a formal structure (union) to act as the employee representative.

None of which is in play here. There are no employees, just volunteers. There is no union. Yhe action appears to be somewhat arbitrary. Why private groups? Why 48 hours? Has there been any formal discussions to the root dispute? Is there a union for API users? What link us there between API users and moderators?

So yes, the response seems heavy-handed, but the proposed action seems premature. The mods are testing their power and Reddit is responding. And there's no law governing any of this, on either side.
> I have a strong aversion to Python

I have had a great experience with HA (unlike with OpenHAB which is a Java-based monstrosity with a data schema that is near impossible to figure out).

It's unfortunate that he went and rewrote an entire home management stack just because he dislikes Python.

Even worse, the justification for disliking Python, namely:

> It’s a nice language, but for things like home automation, having build/dependencies problems is the absolute last thing I need.

is absolutely not a problem if you run HA on a tiny dedicated box, because all of that stuff is completely handled (and hidden) by the HA update system.

> The biggest problem with HomeAssistant, however, is its really over-engineered setup for running on mini computers like the Raspberry Pi, which was my goal.

It may feel over-engineered if you look under HA's skirts (the fleet of docker containers thing), but turns out you almost never need to go deep into HA to get it to do things, and when you actually do, HA is actually pretty open and easy to work with. (just ssh to port 22222 if you really need access to the bare metal system).

I would agree that the HA setup is a bit unusual for someone used to just ssh into a linux server: I had the same initial reaction. But turns out it's actually never much of a problem. It's just different.

Also, it may look heavy, but it runs absolutely fine on a small raspi-like computer.

> Is the best solution we can come up with a bunch of Docker containers running on a custom Linux distro?

Why not? It may "feel" big and complicated, but in practice:

- it's very well packaged
- it's very well maintained
- it has support for a *ton* of home automation devices
- it runs out of the box on a tiny and cheap SBC (a raspi) without overloading it

All you have to do is dedicate a raspi to the problem and be done with it, not really a big problem.

And if you really want to run it on a Linux server that is used for other things, and the HA architecture irks you the wrong way: just wrap HA in a native qemu VM and run it on your server along your other stuff.
My sample size is limited (Thiel, Musk, Bezos, etc.), but I’ve noticed the pattern where successful businessmen (often benefiting from public investments and government subsidies) become more libertarian over time, and strangely also tend to become defense/government contractors.
Is this an irony or hypocrisy?
Or maybe they’re trying to make a point (as in, the best way to get a bug fixed is to exploit it.)
Or maybe it’s just easier to have one giant customer than a billion tiny ones?
Genuinely curious about this…
> Sweden has the lowest excess deaths count in the western world.

This is false and full-on misinformation. It's sad to to see it in a forum like HN.

> They didn't lock down.

This is misleading as well. The Swedish public works differently. There is a high trust in government and authorities. The govt said this is dangerous, stay at home if you can, so people did. The degree of distancing was on par with all other Western countries. Source: I live there.

It's not possible to do this in other countries because people wouldn't give a damn unless there is a fine.

I won't comment the rest, you are too deep into conspiracy theory territory.
I know as a non-parent I should be the last person being frustrated with others' parenting choices, but it seems weird that your friend just "let" smartphones ruin his relationship with his kids, rather than imposing and enforcing limits on their use. Maybe the smartphones go into the glove box when riding in the car. Or in general, maybe the smartphones aren't always physically accessible to the kids, and are only given to them when they have a need for them, or when it's "playtime".

When I was a kid, my parents didn't allow to sit and play Nintendo all day, as much as I wanted to sometimes. The idea that getting a smartphone for a kid inevitably means that they're going to have it on their person and be glued to it 24/7 is just bonkers.
Losing weight is easy: just do nothing!

Haha, only kidding. But really, it often is easier to reduce calorie intake than it is to increase calorie expenditure.

Sure, you can burn hundreds or thousands of calories a day by riding your bike. But if you’re worried about losing that much weight, are you in good enough shape to do that much exercise reliably anyway? I’m not.

(I should ride my bike more…)
> So if e.g. a user posts a dozen long answers within 10 minutes, and they all have characteristics of ChatGPT, that would be a pretty good signal.

Ah yeah, the frequency of posts definitely makes sense.

> output of specific AI tools like ChatGPT produces certain patterns that are quite noticeable

I would agree with you for gpt 3.5, but I don't think this is the case for GPT-4 (I've spent several hundred hours using GPT-4 for various tasks - mainly related to coding & learning random subjects).
> Ban all phones for kids? That's a terrible idea, what if they are in a ditch with a broken leg after falling off a bike?

Let's give them guns too, because what if a giant bear comes in that cliff?
I wonder how that will compare to keeping Starships running to/from Mars.