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> The bulk of the people in this thread should be disproportionally inclined to be self-motivated and self-taught in multiple domains, and having this sort of feature available makes worlds of difference

I agree that AI could be an enormous educational aid to those who want to learn. The problem is that if any human task can be performed by a computer, there is very little incentive to learn anything. I imagine that a minority of people will learn stuff as a hobby, much in the way that people today write poetry or develop film for fun; but without an economic incentive to learn a skill or trade, having a personal Socratic teacher will be a benefit lost on the majority of people.
10-20 years ago, sure. Nowadays you can get basically the same product from LEGO compatible competitors for way cheaper. Dunno how many modern sets of the variety of competitor stuff you've assembled recently, there's huge variance. Some of it definitely has crap QC. Some of it is really, really good now. My wife put together some knockoff 8000+ piece set the other year and the pieces were basically flawless.
The treasury department didn't print money for no reason. Stabilizing the economy during Covid is a much better reason then a pointless and stupid trade war
How does deducting R&D in software equal magic money? Isn't it just making the deduction timeframe the same timeframe as the actual expense/money paid?

It's weirder that you spend money on R&D today & then get a 20% for 5 years in a row, no? You've spend money, but also can't deduct it from your profit so you're both spending money and paying taxes on that money as if you had it.
It stands for "marketing", obviously. After all, that's what you do to "develop" the output of your "research" into a product.
> AI systems are no longer just specialized research tools: they’re everyday academic companions.

Oh, please, from the bottom of my heart as a teacher: go fuck yourselves.
I predict he's not gonna be on Mars.
That's not at all what a tax write off is. A tax write off is when you spend money, and it reduces your profit. You've really spent the money.
Should you pivot your startup, or push through?
I use my (work) computer entirely with my voice, and it takes a lot of effort to work out what to actually write and to not ramble. Like you I've found that it's better to throw out words in sort of half sentence chunks, to give your brain time to work out what the next chunk is.

It's very hard, and I wouldn't do it if I didn't have to.

(which is why I'm always perplexed by these apps which allow voice dictation or voice control, but not as a complete accessibility package. I wouldn't be using my voice if my hands worked!)

It's also critically important (and after 3-4 years of this I still regularly fail at this) to actually read what you've written, and edit it before send, because those chunks don't always line up into something that I'd consider acceptably coherent. Even for a one sentence slack message.

(also, I have a kiwi accent, and the dictation software I use is not always perfect at getting what I wanted to say on the page)
> completely different to if basic income was actually universal and expected to continue in the long-term

If we were in a “long term UBI situation” how would people really trust that the cash would keep flowing?

If current benefit programs (Medicare, social security, ACA, food stamps) are under attack how would it work with UBI ?

It would be fine for older workers to step back, but what about young adults coming into the workforce - would they just skip learning?
Just because companies say they have skilled shortage doesn't make it true. They're mostly just picky and want to put pressure on wages. I also have a Ferrari shortage, so we need to make more Ferraris.

Plus, EU visas are basically just rubber stamps anyway compared to how hard getting an H1B is.

Actually here's another unused pressure point, the EU can retaliate by making it as difficult for Americans to work in the EU as it is for EU citizens to work in the US. Why isn't it already reciprocal?
We literally vaccinate people against diseases they might never personally catch because preventing transmission is part of the goal
I think you are mistaking several IQ scales. IIRC the scale that uses 1 stdev per 15 points saturates around 150. The iq scale that goes to 190 is a different one.
Title: Local market with delivery
>I was genuinely sad to leave the office, going with my coworkers to the nearby Subway restaurant

That Subway restaurant wouldn't accept to be payed in two months.

Maybe you can accept a delayed payment if you have some money and the company can somehow prove they will be able to pay later. Otherwise it's better to go.
> Why should singles and childless people subsidise people with children?

My point was mainly that that kind of first tier city would attract those kind of people, not specifically that they should be targeted.

If you lived in a 2nd tier zone you shouldn't pay extra in taxes even if you're childless.

But specifically to your question, I do think that it's fair that childless people should pay more taxes, because having a stable population is a requirement for a stable society and single/childless people aren't doing their part.

That duty can be offloaded to parents with more children, but they should be compensated for that.

You can frame it whatever you want -- they pay more taxes, parents pay less taxes, parents get tax rebates, parents get higher UBI per child, the outcome is the same.

I do think that first tier cities leach and profit from the work of the parents, educators of the people who migrate there (and generally the whole area -- it takes a village to raise a child), profit from exorbitant property taxes so, I think the only way to solve this curse is higher taxes (if it's required) on those areas and subsidized living in less desirable places -- provided that those 2nd tier places produce competent citizens.
Enjoyed the read - thanks for sharing! Found a small typo here:

> For the service rate (λ), we can keep things simple and assume that our server can service 10 items per minute with zero variation.

I think it's supposed to be mu and not lambda
British-born here. Standing on a plug is somewhat a rite of passage that each kid goes through at least once. It's a meme in the UK.

The flat back of most plugs increased the risk of standing on this type of plug. It's similar to the experience of standing on Lego, except it will dig much deeper into your foot, and falling over is better than putting all of your weight on it.

It can be a common occurrence, because using an extension cord or an appliance you don't always need to have plugged in can just be laying around. And kids aren't known for being tidy. If you managed to get past being a clumsy kid and had the self awareness to avoid it, props to you.
If the options are to pay out immediately and risk shuttering the business, or delay, most people will probably delay.

It doesn't make it legally or morally right, but that's the way it goes.

> ...caused you some temporary economic pain

Not only them, but potentially all the other people who rely on the business.
You're skipping over a critical step, which is that our society allocated resources based on the labor value that an individual provides. If we free up everyone to do anything, they're not providing labor any more, so they get no resources. In other words, society needs to change in big ways, and I don't know how or if it will do that.
Again no. VAT is also managed at EU level. The digital services tax could be done. The best thing would be to implement the full beps agreement but the US don't want that.
Irrelevant. If neutral gets disconnected, your hypotetical device will have hot case anyway. That is why devices without grounding have to be double insulated
Which cheap LLMs are good for Mermaid, and to sketch graphs from code? I had to switch between the cheap LLMs and "tutor" them a bit to edit Mermaid in a Markdown file, although Claude seems perfect.
Honestly, it's crazy that any country allows online media to control the national discourse about politics without having any insight into how the algorithms decide what kind of content is shown to whom and how content is moderated or controlled. Then there's bot/propaganda accounts run by who knows who poisoning any political discussion.
Yeah I was wary of saying 'declaration of war' (even though I think it's kinda true), but at least those imports will route themselves through Vietnam or wherever now in a few months.
> Before traveling, back up your devices so you don’t lose anything permanently.

_anything_ here presumably doesn't include freedom of movement of when you find yourself in an El Salvador concentration camp.

Next up: How to replace your Real Madrid tattoo by obtaining a skin graft
The structured concurrency paradigm in workflows is stricter to what I'm reading here [1]. The whole execution model is different from the Task [2], as workflows are transparently unloaded and replayed.

Obelisk has a concept called join sets [3], where child executions are submitted and awaited. In the future I plan on adding cancellation and allow custom cleanup functions.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

[2] https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

[3] https://obeli.sk/docs/latest/concepts/workflows/join-sets/
> i've ever used

There are tools people complain about and there are tools nobody uses.
I thought it's the end of zero interest-rate policy, also in 2022, that made the industry panic and started the massive layoffs waves.

Are Section 174 amortization and the end of ZIRP two independent changes that coincidentally came into effect at the same time, or are they somehow related?
Why would you need a fuse in the plug? What purpose would it serve?

(edit) as correctly pointed out in the reply, fuse in brittish plug is because of peculiar way brittish homes are wired. Putting fuse in type F sounds weird.
I agree, you should take the risk into account when negotiating a deal. The value should balance the risk.
I think the current US government is missing the negotiation part of the word negotiation.
> Israel is often held to higher political and moral standards than other nations under the guise of justified by its classification as a Western democracy.

If you really think it’s just a “guise” then I can understand your point of view. But it’s very hard for me to agree with that assessment. Israel is treated entirely differently than say Islamic countries in the West. We would never accept the blatant disrespect for international law that they display if they were an Islamic nation, and just keep sending them weapons.

So I’d say the source of the tension is that Israel isn’t really a Western democracy, but it enjoys the privileges of being one.
The selling point looks to be this: you get all the advantages of server side rendering but with the flexibility of react client side components as well. Being able to just use react components for composability on the server side is pretty nice.
I'm interestingly in agreement with you. A learned understanding of our monetary system [1] makes it clear that taxes are primarily about freeing resources that the state can use to provision itself, not raising money. In such a system it is much easier to point out unintended consequences as well as understand what makes a tax effective or not, assuming one chooses to understand it.

The question then is only how much government you want, which is a political question.

[1] relevant to the UK, but equivalent systems exist in any monetarily sovereign country: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4890683
Students will work in a world where they have to use AI to do their jobs. This is not going to be optional. Learning to use AIs effectively is an important skill and should be part of their education.

And it's an opportunity for educators to raise the ambition level quite a bit. It indeed obsoletes some of the tests they've been using to evaluate students. But they too now have the AI tools to do a better job and come up with more effective tests.

Think of all that time freed up having to actually read all those submitted papers. I can tell you from experience (I taught a few classes as a post doc way back): not fun. Minimum you can just instantly fail the ones that are obviously poorly written, are full of grammatical errors, and feature lots of flawed reasoning. Most decent LLMs do a decent job of doing that. Is using an LLM for that cheating if a teacher does it? I think that should just be expected at this point. And if it is OK for the teacher, it should be OK for the student.

If you expect LLMs to be used, it raises the bar for the acceptable quality level of submitted papers. They should be readable, well structured, well researched, etc. There really is no excuse for those papers not being like that. The student needs to be able to tell the difference. That actually takes skill to ask for the right things. And you can grill them on knowledge of their own work. A little 10 minute conversation maybe. Which should be about the amount of time a teacher would have otherwise spent on evaluating the paper manually and is definitely more fun (I used to do that; give people an opportunity to defend their work).

And if you really want to test writing skills, put students in a room with pen and paper. That's how we did things in the eighties and nineties. Most people did not have PCs and printers then. Poor teachers had to actually sit down and try to decipher my handwriting. Which even when that skill had not atrophied for a few decades, wasn't great.

LLMs will force change in education one way or another. Most of that change will be good. People trying to cheat is a constant. We just need to force them to be smarter about it. Which at a meta level isn't that bad of a skill to learn when you are educating people.
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They could just raise taxes. Detonating a bomb under the global financial system just to avoid raising taxes is still stupid. Trump is stupid.
I find the British plug tends to end up feeling more compact in the wall over US plugs because it's perpendicular on the wall by default, making it easier to hide sockets behind appliances etc.
India has a bigger population but they haven't risen anywhere near the way China has.

China's rise was due to smart planning and investment in their people and infrastructure. The country went from peasant farmers to the manufacturing hub of the world in a generation. Now they're in the process of becoming a major hub of knowledge workers while keeping a strong manufacturing backbone.

And one thing I rarely see mentioned is that the Chinese government keeps its currency artificially devalued in order to sell their products cheaply and undercut competition. Looking at their economy purely on a GDP basis really underestimates how big their economy is. GDP by PPP is more accurate. If China ever decides to stop loosely pegging its currency and let the value naturally rise, their GDP will very likely swell, since GDP is measured in US dollars.
Considering I talked about a truly free market, central planning then seems to be a weird reaction. Why would that be related? It's not like I suggested a Chinese system, I advocated for one which is free from monopoly and focusses on local production and diversity for sourcing goods.
Efficiency and accountability are different things. The idea of DOGE is good, I mean you don't even disagree yourself. This particular implementation is... about as good as you could expect, i.e. horrendous. Kids grind leetcode, but nobody makes them grind 'the purpose of a system is what it does' litanies.
> and 80% of them graduate illiterate

That sounds less like misused tax dollars, and more like a major humanitarian crisis. Which country do you live in?
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> Note that after a hotplug event, the user DOES get a prompt about an update. However, it is an opt-OUT prompt, meaning the update will install in 30 seconds unless "abort" is clicked.

I agree that calling it "0-click" is not a lie, but I also think it's a little bit dishonest.
The title should be something like "Could Vitamin D supplementation help prevent acute respiratory infection? Systematic review and meta-analysis".

When I read the "Vitamin D supplementation to prevent" part, I got excited because I thought the research implied that supplementation does help. So I had to read it.

With the first title, I wouldn't read the study because I've read dozens of other studies showing how Vitamin D supplementation doesn't improve health outcomes.
It also has a fuse in it that is completely useless in almost all world except UK. So no thanks, you can keep it. We prefer not to burn our houses down.
What you describe with building and rebuilding and keeping a clean environment is exactly what I use Docker containers for, eg devcontainers. I know it’s not reproducible in the same way, but the learning curve is so, so much lower for something 90% as good and with much more documentation and online support.
No, you probably do indeed not know. Israel did not start this war. They also once withdrew from Gaza.

These facts are all very counterindicative of Israels ambition for genocide. Fairly contrary to what the defacto government of Gaza espouses.
Damn! I tried to answer the question without looking at the thread and arrived at a unit cost of 28 % of the retail price, after deducting reasonable guesses at VAT, store margin, shipping, etc. Fairly close to the quoted 25 %.

Fermi estimation is awesome and if you're one of today's lucky 10,000 who haven't heard of it, this is your day!
Progressive income tax already does this "taxing first-tier cities a higher percentage" thing. The tax bands are the same in all cities, so people living in the cheaper, low pay provincial cities already pay less tax as a proportion of income. This effect is very stark in comparing London to the rest of the UK.
Exactly. I bought 3 or 4 China Lego clones to try and the parts were slightly different in size and in color. Some blocks way too big, so building was not good experience. For original Lego you don’t need sanding paper on the table.
I think the joke here is that somehow management refused to sell Colossus (which is such an obvious nice product just like BigQuery) before and it takes "AI" to convince them.
It was just a dumb compromise to get a budget over the line, and then Congress couldn't ever fix it.
This is one of the reasons I've been afraid to use parser combinators too heavily. With regular (finite-state) languages I know their time usage, with parser combinators I have no clue, and there are so many different libraries and implementations and some are monadic and some are applicative and few mention worst-case. There are benchmarks https://gitlab.com/FinnBender/haskell-parsing-benchmarks#byt... but what kinds of "dangerous operations" do I have to watch out for when writing with parser combinators?

(I guess part of the problem is just that regular languages have been studied since Kleene had a full head of hair, while parser combinators were more or less unknown until the 80's.)
Fortunately, he remained friends with the other guys on the team and continued playing on our company hockey team (hockey-tech startup), so even though he was mad at myself and the CEO, I don't think he wanted to sue us into submission. I think he understood the ~$2500 we owed him (2004) was double the salary of our other guys and potentially could have been the difference between company survival and lights out. He was wise to leave at the time, with a better job in hand. Our finances did get better and we did pay him + interest a few months later. It sucked (and like I said I am ashamed) but there are unfortunate ugly decisions you sometimes have to make at a startup for survival.
France's new high-speed train has Americans asking: Why can't we have that?
Do you think you're, perhaps over doing self-the promotion?

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(4 subs, 2 weeks) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=musicot.github.io

(3 subs, 1 week/5 subs, 1 month) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com%2Finclusio...

(3 subs 1 week) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mainfunc.ai

(2 subs, 2 weeks) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mureka.ai

(4 subs, 3 months) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=trae.ai

(approaching ∞ subs) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pingcap.com
I've heard of Fixable (https://www.isfixable.com/) in India. They seem to link to a lot of resources.
It can happen if a high power device is used continually. This is against the regulations, but sometimes people do things like connect a 3kW weather heater with a 13A plug, or connect several devices adding up to that power through a power strip.
Thanks for your encouragement.

Just released a new version with command line support.
Nobody mentionned biology. It is policy and culture.

In the USA it is less fashionable and more frowned upon every year to show intelligent traits. And it has been the case for the last 20 years.
Your comments reminds me one time I discussed with a university professor about how evil the eradication of the biosphere diversity was (wildlife but also unique breeds with century-long histories), and he replied that we'd have a "less bloated, more efficient biosphere".
Maybe, but influencers and online gurus love to try to transform old nuggets into something they see as new and fresh. As an acquaintance says, what's new is old again.
Then the title could be "Meta analysis finds Vitamin D supplementation doesn't improve Acute Respiratory Illness" or some variation of that, which is something I've known about Vitamin D for a while.
I’m actually blown away by that article. Fucking clever shit. Gonna save the other parts and read em later.
Nike's margin is brand.

Footlocker probably doesn't have much of a margin, the price they charge is due more to high labor and real estate costs in the US which are being passed on.
UK central fuse boxes don't have a fuse/RCD per socket. For example, mine has common ones for the kitchen, downstairs sockets, upstairs sockets, and all lighting -separate ones only for the boiler and cooker.

The wiring system was designed during world war II when there was a copper shortage and someone calculated that it used less to use larger conductors to several sockets than to run smaller individual ones to each socket.
We know mate, we know.. its time for your nap.
I think the main issue is... hardware.

There is a reason why I have 0 problems using linux on a raspberry PI, yet everytime I try to install in a real computer I got lying around I got a myriad of nosense problems which are particularly hard to solve.

If we want a new OS we need to make it for certain platform which is always identical in terms of hardware. I would say a PS3, Steam Deck, or Nintendo Switch would be good candidates.

They have plenty of identical hardware units in the market, and you could focus on the OS rather than supporting strange hardware issues.

You missed my favourite from the list: ReactOS
> I still wonder what would have happened had Jean-Louis Gassée been less greedy and Apple acquired BeOs instead of Next.

Nothing different would have happened. You would have used C++ instead of Objective-C to write macOS UI programs, but other then that macOS would be in the same shitty state it as is today (assuming a wildly popular iPhone would also have happened in that alternative timeline and take the focus away from desktop UI development).

One thing might probably be different: macOS might be less popular amongst developers because BeOS wasn't a UNIX clone (but 'Linux on the desktop' might actually be in a better state).
In the current browser landscape I would think not. Firefox is no less secure than Chrome or Safari and both are subject to economic incentives. You could even argue these issues negatively relate to security as well.